Quote from: The_Gloomfrost on February 25, 2014, 08:45:29 PM

Do I smell regulation and centralization in this thread?
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Smells bad.

Regulation, nope.. there are no binding 'resolutions' or anything that would come out of this. No one can force an exchange (or other bitcoin company) to accept having external oversight/reporting, nor prevent them from evicting said overseers at any time.

Centralization, I guess a little. Hard to avoid a bit of it in cases like this. We all want info, but clearly an exchange can't open its doors to hundreds of oompaloompas. The cells in our body are pretty bad at getting sugars and oxygen without cooperating to nominate some cells as blood, some as lungs, etc. No one's in charge, but there's still a consensus. I would say this is more like consensus than centralization, wouldn't you agree?