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Given that the blog post is advocating technical change to Bitcoin, I'm not certain how there could be any audience more relevant than the mailing list of Bitco

• Retric 12y ago
  Sure, but the idea goes beyond Bitcoin. "A Plan For Spam" is a great example of the same sort of post being far better served as a blog post than any mailing list. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html Why? because a simple edit and you can link to any refinements and the idea goes beyond email to any kink of SPAM.
  • weavejester 12y ago
    Even if that were true, the post is very clearly advocating a change to Bitcoin itself. Don't you think it's just a little weird to suggest a technical change to a software project on a random blog, rather than discussing it first with the people who actually manage the project you're trying to change? Cryptocurrencies are also a far more specialised field than spam prevention. The blog post outlines a strategy for dealing with large mining cartels in a widely-used cryptocurrency. I'd suggest that maintaining a serious crypto-currency is something that very few people in the world have the expertise to do reliably. When your intended audience is, at most, a few thousand, or maybe even a few hundred cryptographers, I really don't see the point in putting it on a blog to a general audience.