Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:40:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> The EFF changed its mind two years later.
> 
>     https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty

Ok, from the above link:

 You can now give Bitcoins to EFF in the same way that you can give
 stock. EFF has long had a policy that converts gifts of stock and
 items like cars into cash immediately on receipt.

At the very minimum, we should have a policy like that, as Bitcoin is
more an asset than money.

The referenced link has even more interesting stuff, which I'll quote:

  [...] we note here that Bitcoin is very often not anonymous in the
  ways users might believe or expect, because (for instance) the
  network doesn't actively conceal the IP addresses from which
  transactions were initiated; its expenditure of large amounts of
  computational resources may turn out to be unnecessary; and its
  monetary policy is controversial and arguably designed to
  incentivize adoption and holding of the currency, rather than
  maximizing valuable economic transactions.

To me, it's sad to see that we seem to be officially endorsing Bitcoin
without any debate at all. If we accept Bitcoin, we should probably
accept competing so-called-cryptocurrencies as well. Should Debian
favour one cryptocurrency over the others?

Thanks.