{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1sgs97fe0n9wehe6zw7drcxdz4cy9yt9pfqjv8gasz5jlk4zezc0quppx3c","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1sgs97fe0n9wehe6zw7drcxdz4cy9yt9pfqjv8gasz5jlk4zezc0quppx3c","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-09-19\n📝 Original message:On 09/19/2015 12:57 AM, NxtChg wrote:\u003e\n\u003e\u003e Your vision of censorship resistance is to become such a strong\n\u003e\u003e central authority that you can resist it in direct physical\n\u003e\u003e confrontation. If you succeed at this, you are the threat.\n\u003e\n\u003e My vision is a strong _decentralized_ system, which is:\n\u003e\n\u003e   a) too important to close,\n\nYour argument is that the state is not a threat to a system designed to\ndeprive the state of seigniorage, because the state will see that system\nas too important?\n\nBitcoin cannot be both decentralized and reliant on being, \"too\nimportant to close\". If it can be closed there is insufficient\ndecentralization.\n\nI was concerned that this was going off topic for a technical forum.\nHowever this is the central technical issue of Bitcoin. If one does not\nunderstand the threat then one cannot model it or design systems to\ndefend against it. On the other hand, this is unfortunately not new\nterritory, so I'll leave it at this, which is also not news to most of us...\n\n\n\u003e   b) able to provide adequate response to governments, like EFF or\nGoogle do.\n\n\"The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to cover the\ncosts of major internet companies involved in the Prism surveillance\nprogram after a court ruled that some of the agency's activities were\nunconstitutional, according to top-secret material passed to the Guardian.\n\nThe technology companies, which the NSA says includes Google...\"\n\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid\n\ne\n\n-------------- next part --------------\nA non-text attachment was scrubbed...\nName: signature.asc\nType: application/pgp-signature\nSize: 473 bytes\nDesc: OpenPGP digital signature\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150919/9fb0d870/attachment.sig\u003e"}