Quote from: CompNsci on March 04, 2014, 03:54:34 AM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on March 04, 2014, 02:34:58 AM

What "appropriate group"? The central bank of Bitcoin? The Central Bitcoin Intelligence Agency?

You have no idea which addresses belong to MtGox. It doesn't strike you as utter contemptible to just start blocking addresses because you think they belong to MtGox? Forget laws, on what ethical or moral authority do you have the right to arrest the wealth on another person?

As I suggested at the beginning of the thread, I would suggest a group of people, reasonably respected in the community, be set up to judge the evidence. To proceed fairly they would have to weigh the evidence for particular addresses. These addresses can always be unlocked if an owner can submit proof of proper ownership by other than Mt. Gox.

There are quite a few discussions on the web where the evidence looks reasonably compelling that there are large blocks of bitcoin which previously belonged to Mt. Gox and haven't been spent since. I don't believe it is accurate to qualify this evidence as "no idea".

There is another alternative to viewing this as arresting the wealth of anyone. It could be viewed as the miners simply refusing to take part in what they judge to be an unethical transaction. I don't think there is anything wrong with miners deciding they don't want to support what may be a massive fraud or theft.

This is centralization, and is against one of the core values of Bitcoin. End of discussion.

Ok. No. There is something you can do. Make a client for users and a bitcoind for miners and pools that simply does not processes certain addresses that you are against. Then publicize and distribute that client. If you get 51% of the miners to follow you, you win! It is not a whole lot of code just to ignore the addresses either. Then when someone tries to move those coins, the network will fork. If you have enough on your side the network will re-organize every time a block is mined with those coins and revert back to your fork without those coins moving.