{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1r3san9v5njl6798hvauyu9ntm6r9c7u8s0t65wls58gpfdcvqp5sa48d0u","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1r3san9v5njl6798hvauyu9ntm6r9c7u8s0t65wls58gpfdcvqp5sa48d0u","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-09-20\n📝 Original message:Replying to this specific email only because it is the most recent in my\nmail client.\n\nDoes this conversation have to happen on-list? It seems to have wandered\nincredibly far off-topic.\n\nOn Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e Also, in the US, despite overwhelming resistance on a broad scale,\n\u003e\u003e legislation continues to be presented which would violate the 2nd amendment\n\u003e\u003e right to keep and bear arms.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e And yet the proposed legislation goes nowhere, and the USA continues to\n\u003e stand alone in having the first world's weakest gun control laws.\n\u003e\n\u003e You are just supporting my point with this example. Obama would like to\n\u003e restrict guns, but can't, because they are too popular (in the USA).\n\u003e\n\u003e The comparison to BitTorrent is likewise weak: governments hardly care\n\u003e about piracy. They care enough to pass laws occasionally, but not enough to\n\u003e put serious effort into enforcement. Wake me up when the USA establishes a\n\u003e Copyright Enforcement Administration with the same budget and powers as the\n\u003e DEA.\n\u003e\n\u003e Internet based black markets exist only because governments tolerate them\n\u003e (for now). A ban on Tor, Bitcoin or both would send them back to the\n\u003e pre-2011 state where they were virtually non-existent. Governments tolerate\n\u003e this sort of abuse only because they believe, I think correctly, that\n\u003e Bitcoin can have great benefits for their ordinary voters and for now are\n\u003e willing to let the tech industry experiment.\n\u003e\n\u003e But for that state of affairs to continue, the benefits must actually\n\u003e appear. That requires growth.\n\u003e\n\u003e I think there's a difference between natural growth and the kind of growth\n\u003e\u003e that's being proposed by bank-backed start-ups and pro-censorship entities.\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e What difference? Are you saying the people who come to Bitcoin because of\n\u003e a startup are somehow less \"natural\" than other users?\n\u003e\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e bitcoin-dev mailing list\n\u003e bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\n\u003e https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev\n\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150920/65ddbc70/attachment-0001.html\u003e"}