Re: Wondering out loud: Which should Chinese miners support

And my company, HaoBTC, has been contemplating sponsoring a core developer recently.

My bet is that Chinese miners will sponsor Luke-jr so that he can change the PoW to put all the Chinese miners out of business.

It really seems that Chinese miners kowtow to those who show contempt for them, and they show contempt for anybody who listens to them and tries to take their concerns into account.

Do they know that in the West that's considered shameful behavior?

Case in point. Nationality does matter after all.

There was no point in fatbitcoinfan's post. He was only being a rude sarcastic troll, by making fun of Luke-jr and your excellent idea to sponsor a core dev.

If you are convinced nationality does matter to Bitcoin's code and protocol, what should we expect from your core dev?

What could possibly make Bitcoin's neutral code and protocol 'more Chinese?' Just the dev's nation of origin, or some new feature like Lucky 8MB blocks?

That line of thought makes no sense to me, especially given the Cypherpunk Manifesto's emphasis on code, privacy, and individualism.

I don't see how your emphasis on national identity is compatible with it.

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Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

The personal/national identities of our fellow Bitcoiners should not matter, and it's not any of our business to violate their privacy.