{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1yw9mz9gsrukq2seu9w9wljqw6k62l8fllpz8fzze673znzc3ddysaz8l47","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1yw9mz9gsrukq2seu9w9wljqw6k62l8fllpz8fzze673znzc3ddysaz8l47","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-09-19\n📝 Original message:\u003eWhile to many of us that sounds crazy, if you're threat model assumes\n\u003eBitcoin is a legal/regulated service provided by a highly trusted mining\n\u003ecommunity it's a reasonable design.\n\nThere is a large, grey area all the way to \"legal/regulated service provided by a highly trusted mining community\".\n\nPainting the worst looking picture is either a defect in thinking or intentional FUD.\n\n\n\u003e Mike Hearn recently posted his threat model, which specifically argues we\n\u003e should assume governments are not a threat.\n\nThere are two ways to fight governments:\n\n1. either you become too big to close, so political repercussions become unacceptable\n\n2. or you become too tiny to hunt, in which case you are much better off with a specialized alt-coin, designed specifically for that purpose."}