There are some policy decision points in the protocol (and code) that may become centralized risks or choke points that undermine the p2p nature. So the extent that those can be argued to have in principle have a technical fix, it could be quite interesting to research the necessary technology (advanced crypto, byzantine networking argument etc) that could address them. eg payee/payer blacklisting by a large group of miners and "committed transaction" proposal to address it.
However even for that type of thing I think bitcoin-dev would probably rather focus eg on something that has reached the stage of having a BIP. Eg it might be better to discuss early stage or speculative ideas on bitcointalk.org technical thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=6.0 taxation in particular there are examples where even the political sphere accepts significantly anonymous taxation. eg for europeans with certain types of investment in a swiss bank, the swiss bank sends however many million as a single payment across all users per european country to their passport home country (minus 25% cut for the swiss government). Perhaps such things could be possible for bitcoin. Again I think bitcoin talk would be a good place for such a discussion if that was the OP question indirectly. Adam On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 06:32:10PM +1000, Gavin Andresen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Neil Fincham <[1]n...@asdf.co.nz> > wrote: > > I subscribe to this list so I can keep up-to date with bitcoin > development, can we keep philosophy and tax evasion out of it? > > Yes, that's off-topic for this mailing list. Lets stick to technical > issues that we can solve by writing code. > -- > -- > Gavin Andresen > >References > > 1. mailto:n...@asdf.co.nz >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >October Webinars: Code for Performance >Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. >Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from >the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > >http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >_______________________________________________ >Bitcoin-development mailing list >Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
