Re:Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrep...
by gcb0 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:53PM
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the miners can't control what's legal
Re:Switzerland embraces digital currencies and crypto-entrep...
by roymurdock on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:22PM
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Ok so if you’re going to send inspectors and police out to the ASIC farms to verify compliance and register that miner as a “chartered” miner running the right software...why change the system at all? That’s how it works with banks under the current federal reserve system in the US and defeats the whole point of decentralization
Decentralizing control by definition gives power to all of the nodes in the network, requiring their buy-in to conduct any type of "monetary policy" by changing the source code and rolling out an upgraded application.
Any changes that could increase the hash rate, increase the max number of tokens, "destroy" transactions, rollback to a certain state, etc. would require miner cooperation. Whereas right now central banks can just "create" liquidity by tweaking monetary policy without needing the banks and populace to approve and agree to these changes.