A random attack that steals the coins from the FBI and moves them someplace else is completely different from what is being proposed here, blacklisting those specific coins in the client and mining software.

In the hacker attack the coins move and are liberated from the FBI, in the blacklisting attempt an alt coin is created.

What OP is proposing is exactly what BTC stands AGAINST. OP should think twice before typeing this kind of posts.

Explain in details how the dump of BTC in the exchange markets will result in a better distribution of wealth to the masses.

By the way, BTC is neither a commodity or a currency. For someone which praise itself as "studied" you lack the fundamental understanding of what exactly is Bitcoin.


Yep, great comparison you did. Do you even know that Tradefortress was running an illegal enterprise and he lost peoples funds?

Apparently we aren't allowed to demonstrate agreement with an opinion or add emphasis to a fact with a simple "+1".  I've recently had my "+1" posts removed.  Therefore, I'm typing out this message to indicate that I believe the quoted information needs extra emphasis to avoid being unnoticed in the rest of the chatter in this discussion. I may (or may not) also have added bold or underline tags to the text in the quote above to further emphasize the parts that I think are important to understand or be aware of.

"What OP is proposing is exactly what BTC stands AGAINST. OP should think twice before typeing this kind of post"

Disagree. Your two sentences are contradictory. Free markets and free speech should always prevail. If I knew that certain bitcoins were being used to fund a pedophile site (e.g. priests.com), I would certainly agree to extraordinary actions and fuck the consequences. OTOH the bitcoins infrastructure could easily be used as a foundation for a voting system. And if you or I disagreed with a certain decision, that is tough shit. Democracy cuts two ways.

Yup and how often do you avoid the main issues raised and just respond with a platitude?

Er, because it's a philosophical question. Would you do something about it if you could, or would you just let it happen because it's a free market?

I am not sure of the exact percentage so I guess you will have to go back through all my posts and figure it out.

My point which you failed to grasp was that you personally never worry about the serial numbers on goobermint issued fiat because it is fungible money.

The single largest threat to the survival of Bitcoin today is the overt and covert attacks on the fungibility of Bitcoin.  If Bitcoin is not fungible then it is not a form of money.  It becomes a collectible with all the problems inherent in a collectibles market:

The need for an authority or authorities to tell you the value of each Bitcoin based on criteria set by outside influences with their own political, economic and social engineering agendas.

The need for and infrastructure to check with this central authority, or worse yet multiple authorities, every single time you do a transaction - so you don't get stuck with less than desirable coins.  Or even worse, the need to check in with a very complex market to value the coins on a “sliding taint scale”, if presented with less than desirable coins, so you can accept them at a discounted value.

Fragmentation of the market for Bitcoins:  a white market for the coins deemed clean by the authority or authorities and a black market for the less desirable, listed coins.

The core developers could consciously or inadvertently either maintain or destroy the fungible property of Bitcoin.

Help:  implement BIP32 as soon as possible in all clients in order to allow all periodic payments to be done in a fungibility supportive way.
         also everyone should use CoinJoin as often as you can, hopefully on every transaction.

Hinder: anything in the clients that helps in the formation, propagation or checking of any kind, color or flavor of lists of Bitcoins.

Bitcoin was made in such way as to let people do transactions to their will. Let the FBI dump the coins, we would be going against our own principles otherwise.