<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1m230cem2yh3mtdzkg32qhj73uytgkyg5ylxsu083n3tpjnajxx4qqa2np2</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-06-16&#xA;📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:33:31PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote:&#xA;&gt; On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Adam Back &lt;adam at cypherspace.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; Dear Adam, All:&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; At the community&#39;s convenience, it would be an honour to arrange an initial&#xA;&gt; open summit to meet with representatives of the Chinese miners in Hong Kong&#xA;&gt; (UTC+8) to facilitate a better understand between the different&#xA;&gt; stakeholders of the Bitcoin ecosystem on this important issue.   This could&#xA;&gt; be arranged for this October, or earlier, if deemed necessary.&#xA;&#xA;Great!&#xA;&#xA;FWIW there Constance Choi and Primavera De Filippi (CC&#39;d) are holding a&#xA;blockchain-tech conference October 14th-15th in Hong Kong as well;&#xA;coordinating your summit with that conference could be useful.&#xA;&#xA;http://blockchainworkshops.org/&#xA;&#xA;This workshop series has been attracting audiences of people looking to&#xA;use blockchain tech in general; many of these use-cases will likely&#xA;involve the Bitcoin blockchain in unpredictable ways. Importantly, these&#xA;ways can drive demand significantly beyond our current assumptions based&#xA;on most demand being consumer-merchant transactions.&#xA;&#xA;In addition, many of the attendees have significant experience with&#xA;regulatory issues and interacting with governments on regulation of&#xA;blockchain tech. Bitcoin faces existential risks to its existence by&#xA;these regulation efforts, which include things like efforts to setup&#xA;industry wide Anti-Money-Laundering/Know-Your-Customer programs,&#xA;including programs that would tie on-chain transactions to identity&#xA;information. Any blocksize discussion needs to be informed by these&#xA;potential threats to usage of the technology, as well as challenges to&#xA;using scaling solutions.&#xA;&#xA;&gt; Remote online participation would be welcome from those who might not be&#xA;&gt; able to attend in person.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; However,  it is hoped that such a meeting would be primarily document&#xA;&gt; driven to facilitate orderly translation, discussion and decision.&#xA;&#xA;Agreed. Pieter Wuille&#39;s recent work is a great example of the kind of&#xA;science-driven investigations that need to be done - and haven&#39;t been&#xA;done very much - to get us some hard data to make decisions on.&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;&#39;peter&#39;[:-1]@petertodd.org&#xA;0000000000000000127ab1d576dc851f374424f1269c4700ccaba2c42d97e778&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;A non-text attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;Name: signature.asc&#xA;Type: application/pgp-signature&#xA;Size: 650 bytes&#xA;Desc: Digital signature&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150616/6117a770/attachment.sig&gt;</html></oembed>