Quote from: gmaxwell on July 17, 2014, 09:58:04 PM

If you're going to remove the non-membership of mining and require certified (and ... presumably licensed by states, since the process will make it easy to pin them down) you might as well eliminate the mining, use signatures, and call it SWIFT.

There are perfectly legitimate uses for signature based systems they have useful security/performance tradeoffs but they're very much at odds with Bitcoin's security model. In Bitcoin mining is anonymous (in the sense that it has no membership) as part of the process of making it decenteralized and somewhat censorship resistant.

Anything that lets you tell if blocks are from the "same dude" creates hooks to force miners to only mine particular transactions.

You are 100% incorrect you need to go up and read my post again.

I propose nothing close to what you are describing.
Anyone can mine even with no ID in my system - that includes sole mining. You have quite simply misunderstood like all of it.

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(WRT "protocol changes", the coins produced by the coinbase transaction cannot be spent for 100 blocks)

I'm confused, I'm pretty sure coinbase coins are the same as other coins and I propose no change to that.. plz read before posting/voting.