<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:2015-06-17&#xA;📝 Original message:On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 09:55:13PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote:&#xA;&gt; &gt; Agreed. Pieter Wuille&#39;s recent work is a great example of the kind of&#xA;&gt; &gt; science-driven investigations that need to be done - and haven&#39;t been&#xA;&gt; &gt; done very much - to get us some hard data to make decisions on.&#xA;&gt; &gt;&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; Thank you very much Peter for pointing this out! That is very kind of you.&#xA;&gt; &#xA;&gt; It would be great to work with Constance Choi, Primavera De Filippi, your&#xA;&gt; goodself and others to make this happen.&#xA;&#xA;Great! They&#39;re excited to see this happen. I&#39;m in London right now&#xA;actually for the conference they were holding this week; the blocksize&#xA;issue was being discussed a fair bit there among attendees. (notably,&#xA;with rather different views than seen on reddit!)&#xA;&#xA;&gt; As you may know, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority considers bitcoin a&#xA;&gt; virtual &#39;commodity&#39; and not a currency per se.&#xA;&#xA;Yup, though keep in mind the regulatory question is more than just how&#xA;your local jurisdiction views Bitcoin, but rather how your customers&#39;&#xA;jurisdictions view Bitcoin.&#xA;&#xA;Of course, when I say &#34;customers&#34; above, I mean the entire Bitcoin&#xA;community that is ultimately buying the new coins produced by miners and&#xA;paying fees to them!&#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/20150617/1c73ff3a/attachment.sig&gt;</html></oembed>