On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:37:11AM +0100, Amir Taaki wrote:
> reducing the risk is newspeak for censorship
>
> protection against fraud is codeword for surveillance.

Maybe it is; maybe it isn't.

I hope Circle is just implementing all the decentralized technologies
we've been talking about for ages that let people chose on their own
terms how to reduce the risks involved in their transactions; best case
is all this talk about moving Bitcoin away from its libertarian roots is
just PR material. After all, Dark Market is an example of that approach,
yet could also be marketted as "bringing Bitcoin into the mainstream
with anti-fraud, lower costs, greater privacy safeguard, and protection
against identity theft".

I'm not very hopeful that's the case, but lets hold off on the torches
and tar until they publish hard details on what exactly they are doing.

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