Quote from: davout on March 12, 2015, 11:06:32 AM

Quote from: RoadStress on March 12, 2015, 10:57:15 AM

Correct me if I am wrong.

Miners follow the money. If doing what they're told is a net profit then they will follow.

Sure, but the miners will decide no matter what. MP is spreading false information/lies.

Quote from: davout on March 12, 2015, 11:06:32 AM

Quote from: RoadStress on March 12, 2015, 10:57:15 AM

At first I thought having green or black lists was a bad thing. After more thinking I came to the conclusion that the future WILL have them. They will be needed just like we have black and green IP lists. This isn't wrong and it will have a minimal impact on the majority.

So it's ok if some unrelated party decides whether you get to spend your own money ?
So it's also ok if someone decides to prevent you from transacting because your coins have a history that you may or may not be responsible for ?

It is not ok but due to the nature of HD wallets I would like to see how will that be enforced.

Quote from: sickpig on March 12, 2015, 11:24:26 AM

Fungibility is an essential characteristic of money. Actually bitcoin hasn't a perfect fungibility due to the nature of the blockchain.
Marking/listing coins will definitely remove it from bitcoin and this is not a "good thing" ^TM, no matter of much thoughts you put into it.

Dollars are used to fund lots of shady stuff, but I don't see anyone blocking me to use them because before me they were in "bad-guys hands".

You and davout don't seem to see a business 2 business potential use of white/black lists while I see lots of potentials. Don't try to enforce your limited and personal vision to everyone else! There are plenty of cases where business could benefit from this and I don't see a way to force it to regular users. There will be businesses that will want to have their address white listed because their activity history will be available on the blockchain and this will make them get a load much easier since they can't alter the books. This is just one example (since you are too lazy to think of any or just refuse), but there are much more uses to this.

So we can have them both and have everyone happy. Since miners will follow the money I am sure that they can find ways to avoid this and that this will not impact them at all. Nobody can force them to mine on a single address!