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1 sat \ 6 replies \ @ek 24 Jul \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Security Consortium Announcement bitcoin
if they aren't doing the main thing (i.e. pooling resources) that consortia actually do.

resources != money

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1 sat \ 5 replies \ @billytheked 24 Jul

¿So then why lede with:

Today nine institutions including BlackRock, Fidelity, Coinbase, and Strategy announced the Bitcoin Security Consortium (@BTCconsortium), pledging $15M toward Bitcoin security work over the next three years?

Name another meaningful resource they might be sharing that doesn't sound conspiratorial.

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11 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 24 Jul

knowledge

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1 sat \ 3 replies \ @billytheked 24 Jul
knowledge

See last part of my question.

If they are fully transparent about this then fine. But that's a question I imagine neither of us is positioned to answer. In @schmidty we trust.

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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @ek 24 Jul

Sharing knowledge sounds conspiratorial?

Would what we're doing here right now be conspiratorial if it were in private?

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @billytheked 24 Jul

It depends on who you ask.

In the Common Law legal system, for example, were we charged and convicted by a jury of conspiring against the state, then legally speaking it would be, definitionally, conspiratorial. We don't have to agree with the verdict to be convicted coconspirators.

I reckon the consortium members wouldn't think of themselves as conspiring either, but does that exclude the possibility? Not even remotely.

So then how could we conclude they are not conspiring? We could wait and find out, but that doesn't like sound very good answer.

Suggestions?

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @ek 24 Jul

No

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