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That's a sword that cuts both ways. If you infrastructure for that kind of filtering became pervasive, you can be sure that government would be dictating which
by VMG 12y ago
That's a sword that cuts both ways. If you infrastructure for that kind of filtering became pervasive, you can be sure that government would be dictating which coins (transaction outputs) are compromised and which are clean.
Luckily a fork of Bitcoin that included these filter mechanism is unlikely to succeed. Let's keep law enforcement on a separate layer, we didn't put it into TCP either.
- drdeca 12y agoWouldn't this just be the particular exchange making the decision though? Just, the exchange voluntarily deciding whether or not to accept the trade? Or did they mean that if the coins were tracked regardless of who they were passed to or through how many people? I don't see how a person deciding not to trade with a given address(govt), or any address that traded directly with that address(person who bought from govt), is creating any sort of infrastructure. It could be worked around with by additional transfers of course, or just used directly to purchase things, But in at least one similar type of thing I don't think it would inherently cause or require any harmful infrastructure/modification to infrastructure, even if it would be pointless.