{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1gg0pysd236d4em7pts906ev9kf6f30j8werd40j2vwpes7fqdn4qtt7uvk","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1gg0pysd236d4em7pts906ev9kf6f30j8werd40j2vwpes7fqdn4qtt7uvk","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-06-16\n📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Peter Todd \u003cpete at petertodd.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:33:31PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote:\n\u003e \u003e On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Adam Back \u003cadam at cypherspace.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e \u003e Dear Adam, All:\n\u003e \u003e\n\u003e \u003e At the community's convenience, it would be an honour to arrange an\n\u003e initial\n\u003e \u003e open summit to meet with representatives of the Chinese miners in Hong\n\u003e Kong\n\u003e \u003e (UTC+8) to facilitate a better understand between the different\n\u003e \u003e stakeholders of the Bitcoin ecosystem on this important issue.   This\n\u003e could\n\u003e \u003e be arranged for this October, or earlier, if deemed necessary.\n\u003e\n\u003e Great!\n\u003e\n\u003e FWIW there Constance Choi and Primavera De Filippi (CC'd) are holding a\n\u003e blockchain-tech conference October 14th-15th in Hong Kong as well;\n\u003e coordinating your summit with that conference could be useful.\n\u003e\n\u003e http://blockchainworkshops.org/\n\u003e\n\u003e This workshop series has been attracting audiences of people looking to\n\u003e use blockchain tech in general; many of these use-cases will likely\n\u003e involve the Bitcoin blockchain in unpredictable ways. Importantly, these\n\u003e ways can drive demand significantly beyond our current assumptions based\n\u003e on most demand being consumer-merchant transactions.\n\u003e\n\u003e In addition, many of the attendees have significant experience with\n\u003e regulatory issues and interacting with governments on regulation of\n\u003e blockchain tech. Bitcoin faces existential risks to its existence by\n\u003e these regulation efforts, which include things like efforts to setup\n\u003e industry wide Anti-Money-Laundering/Know-Your-Customer programs,\n\u003e including programs that would tie on-chain transactions to identity\n\u003e information. Any blocksize discussion needs to be informed by these\n\u003e potential threats to usage of the technology, as well as challenges to\n\u003e using scaling solutions.\n\u003e\n\u003e \u003e Remote online participation would be welcome from those who might not be\n\u003e \u003e able to attend in person.\n\u003e \u003e\n\u003e \u003e However,  it is hoped that such a meeting would be primarily document\n\u003e \u003e driven to facilitate orderly translation, discussion and decision.\n\u003e\n\u003e Agreed. Pieter Wuille's recent work is a great example of the kind of\n\u003e science-driven investigations that need to be done - and haven't been\n\u003e done very much - to get us some hard data to make decisions on.\n\u003e\n\nThank you very much Peter for pointing this out! That is very kind of you.\n\nIt would be great to work with Constance Choi, Primavera De Filippi, your\ngoodself and others to make this happen.\n\nAs you may know, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority considers bitcoin a\nvirtual 'commodity' and not a currency per se.\n\nRegards,\n\np.\n\n\n\u003e\n\u003e --\n\u003e 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org\n\u003e 0000000000000000127ab1d576dc851f374424f1269c4700ccaba2c42d97e778\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150616/2bb69fb3/attachment.html\u003e"}