From: Tom Zander <tomz@freedommail.ch>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Martin Stolze <martin@stolze.cc>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 11:04:18 +0200
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Inquiry: Transaction Tiering
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On Monday, 20 March 2017 21:12:36 CEST Martin Stolze via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> Background: The current protocol enables two parties to transact
> freely, however, transaction processors (block generators) have the
> authority to discriminate participants arbitrarily.

Nag; they don=E2=80=99t have any authority.

> This is well known
> and it is widely accepted that transaction processors may take
> advantage of this with little recourse. It is the current consensus
> that the economic incentives in form of transaction fees are
> sufficient because the transaction processing authorities are assumed
> to be guided by the growth of Bitcoin and the pursuit of profit.

This is not the case, it misunderstands Bitcoin and specifically is=20
misunderstands that Bitcoin is distributed and decentralized.

What you call =E2=80=9Cblock generators=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Ctransaction pr=
ocessors=E2=80=9D are in reality=20
called miners and they don=E2=80=99t have any authority to mine or not mine=
 certain=20
transactions. All they have is a business incentive to mine or not mine a=20
certain transaction.
This is a crucial distinction as that makes it a economical decision, not a=
=20
political.

The massive distribution of miners creating blocks means that one miner is=
=20
free to add his political agenda. They can choose to not mine any satoshi-
dice transactions, should they want. But they can=E2=80=99t stop other mine=
rs from=20
mining those transactions anyway, and as such this is not a political move=
=20
that has any effect whatsoever, at the end of the day it is just an=20
economcal decision.

The rest of your email is based on this misconception as well, and therefor=
e=20
the above answers your question.
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Tom Zander
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