{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-06-17\n📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:55:13PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote:\n\u003e \u003e Agreed. Pieter Wuille's recent work is a great example of the kind of\n\u003e \u003e science-driven investigations that need to be done - and haven't been\n\u003e \u003e done very much - to get us some hard data to make decisions on.\n\u003e \u003e\n\u003e \n\u003e Thank you very much Peter for pointing this out! That is very kind of you.\n\u003e \n\u003e It would be great to work with Constance Choi, Primavera De Filippi, your\n\u003e goodself and others to make this happen.\n\nGreat! They're excited to see this happen. I'm in London right now\nactually for the conference they were holding this week; the blocksize\nissue was being discussed a fair bit there among attendees. (notably,\nwith rather different views than seen on reddit!)\n\n\u003e As you may know, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority considers bitcoin a\n\u003e virtual 'commodity' and not a currency per se.\n\nYup, though keep in mind the regulatory question is more than just how\nyour local jurisdiction views Bitcoin, but rather how your customers'\njurisdictions view Bitcoin.\n\nOf course, when I say \"customers\" above, I mean the entire Bitcoin\ncommunity that is ultimately buying the new coins produced by miners and\npaying fees to them!\n\n-- \n'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org\n0000000000000000127ab1d576dc851f374424f1269c4700ccaba2c42d97e778\n-------------- next part --------------\nA non-text attachment was scrubbed...\nName: signature.asc\nType: application/pgp-signature\nSize: 650 bytes\nDesc: Digital signature\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150617/1c73ff3a/attachment.sig\u003e"}