Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2016-06-23 📝 Original message:On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2016-06-23
📝 Original message:On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 01:30:45PM +0200, Pieter Wuille wrote:
> On Jun 23, 2016 12:56, "Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev" <
> bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > In any case, I'd strongly argue that we remove BIP75 from the bips
> repository,
> > and boycott wallets that implement it. It's bad strategy for Bitcoin
> developers
> > to willingly participate in AML/KYC, just the same way as it's bad for
> Tor to
> > add wiretapping functionality, and W3C to support DRM tech. The minor
> tactical
> > wins you'll get our of this aren't worth it.
>
> I hope you're not seriously suggesting to censor a BIP because you feel it
> is a bad idea.

For the record, I think the idea of the bips repo being a pure publication
platform isn't a good one and doesn't match reality; like it or not by
accepting bips we're putting a stamp of some kind of approval on them.

For example, I suspect I wouldn't be able to get a BIP for a decentralized
assassination market protocol standard into the repository, regardless of
whether or not it was used - it's simply too distastful and controversial for
us to want to merge that. Would you call that rejection censorship?

I have zero issues with us exercising editorial control over what's in the bips
repo; us doing so doesn't in any way prevent other's from publishing elsewhere.

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https://petertodd.org 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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