To piggyback on Jeff, Any proposal that is going to add reliance upon data from third parties outside of the Bitcoin network itself is likely going to be rejected outright. This opens far too many potential vulnerabilities.
"The exchanges that are kept track of could be hard coded into Bitcoin or the miner could choose, how this works is not something I'm personally focused on." Yeah... you can't just gloss over a little detail like that. There must be consensus between the miners, otherwise a solved block will be rejected by a miner's peers. -- Jameson Lopp Software Engineer Bronto Software, Inc On 12/09/2013 06:10 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Ryan Carboni <ryan.jc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It is not a violation of the trust of those holding the currency. Many >> people bought Bitcoin in the hopes that it's value in the relation of other >> currencies will increase, not because there's a fixed money supply. The >> majority of people using Bitcoin as a currency in exchange for real goods >> are using the exchanges. > > Your proposal has been met with widespread laughter. Were I not ill > with the flu, mockery would ensue as well. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
