Mike is calling for a discussion about the issue. He's not suggesting it be implemented in Bitcoin.
yes, he does. Burn him at the stake!
The fact is, Bitcoin's design fundamentally makes redlisting possible. ...
This can be done right now. The biggest obstacle for redlisting currently is the difficulty in convincing people to care about the fact that you're redlisting coins. A government has a way to make people care about it. It's almost guaranteed that some government will try it.
Many, if not the most, are into BTC just to be out of the governments' ways. But yes, "they" could track "evil" coins and catch you when you spend them on an exchange or a shop under their control. So ppl will possibly resort to black market transactions only. Or to more anonymous cryptocoins. Whatever it will be, it will be good. The genie is out of the bottle.
The only way to prevent this from happening is to get involved in politics and convince the decision makers to not do it.
NO. Let them do what they want. Like the war on drugs. That worked marvels.
It's time that "the decision makers" are us.
- Keep an eye on the political scene in your country to make sure you don't miss movements towards this scenario
The political scene is a crime scene. Allow me to opt out of it.
- If you see any, do what you can to oppose them
if you "oppose" them, you reckon them, implying to legitimate their pwning of you. Can't you see it? Just ignore them and opt out of their control.
- Stop trying to silence people calling for discussion. That will make the problem worse.
everyone is entitled to discuss whatever he wants with everyone until he does not try to represent anyone else without a written mandate.
Between two evils
choose freedom