<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Peter Todd <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pete@petertodd.org" target="_blank">pete@petertodd.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 08:33:31PM +0800, Pindar Wong wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Adam Back <<a href="mailto:adam@cypherspace.org">adam@cypherspace.org</a>> wrote:<br>
</span><span class="">> Dear Adam, All:<br>
><br>
> At the community's convenience, it would be an honour to arrange an initial<br>
> open summit to meet with representatives of the Chinese miners in Hong Kong<br>
> (UTC+8) to facilitate a better understand between the different<br>
> stakeholders of the Bitcoin ecosystem on this important issue. This could<br>
> be arranged for this October, or earlier, if deemed necessary.<br>
<br>
</span>Great!<br>
<br>
FWIW there Constance Choi and Primavera De Filippi (CC'd) are holding a<br>
blockchain-tech conference October 14th-15th in Hong Kong as well;<br>
coordinating your summit with that conference could be useful.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://blockchainworkshops.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blockchainworkshops.org/</a><br>
<br>
This workshop series has been attracting audiences of people looking to<br>
use blockchain tech in general; many of these use-cases will likely<br>
involve the Bitcoin blockchain in unpredictable ways. Importantly, these<br>
ways can drive demand significantly beyond our current assumptions based<br>
on most demand being consumer-merchant transactions.<br>
<br>
In addition, many of the attendees have significant experience with<br>
regulatory issues and interacting with governments on regulation of<br>
blockchain tech. Bitcoin faces existential risks to its existence by<br>
these regulation efforts, which include things like efforts to setup<br>
industry wide Anti-Money-Laundering/Know-Your-Customer programs,<br>
including programs that would tie on-chain transactions to identity<br>
information. Any blocksize discussion needs to be informed by these<br>
potential threats to usage of the technology, as well as challenges to<br>
using scaling solutions.<br>
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> Remote online participation would be welcome from those who might not be<br>
> able to attend in person.<br>
><br>
> However, it is hoped that such a meeting would be primarily document<br>
> driven to facilitate orderly translation, discussion and decision.<br>
<br>
</span>Agreed. Pieter Wuille's recent work is a great example of the kind of<br>
science-driven investigations that need to be done - and haven't been<br>
done very much - to get us some hard data to make decisions on.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much Peter for pointing this out! That is very kind of you. <br><br></div><div>It would be great to work with Constance Choi, Primavera De Filippi, your goodself and others to make this happen. <br><br>As you may know, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority considers bitcoin a virtual 'commodity' and not a currency per se.<br><br></div><div>Regards,<br><br></div><div>p.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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