- From: Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 13:58:40 +0000
- To: Kerri Lemoie <kerri@openworksgrp.com>
- Cc: Rick Dudley <a.frederick.dudley@gmail.com>, public-credentials@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAM1Sok2VuoFm=t7WQ_cSabKFw7r-VbpgNNOCRaan8TUJ4S-trQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 at 00:26 Kerri Lemoie <kerri@openworksgrp.com> wrote: > This project illustrates Rick’s point: https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/about > interesting.. a bit more advanced than the traditional 'bingo' approach... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xTROekDerP1TPOB3SOD_1bbQr580BPqbhF3YHdO96pw/edit = ~ $24,16Bn USD in "dormant addresses". may indeed be a better way of burning energy than mining... but that's a different thing to 'self sovereign identity'....? how is this issue being addressed. tim. > > > > Kerri > > > On Nov 2, 2017, at 9:12 AM, Rick Dudley <a.frederick.dudley@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The short answer is given your implicit definition not ownership (which > seems close to the legal one) procession of a private key does not qualify > as ownership of anything. The blockchain community generally disagrees with > the law on this subject out necessity and a fondness for a particular type > of crypto-anarchism. I try to avoid talking about ownership because of its > legal implications and instead talk about control. > > -Rick > > On Nov 2, 2017 05:18, "Timothy Holborn" <timothy.holborn@gmail.com> wrote: > > Question. > > Say two actors have a private key to a bunch of Bitcoin. One removes the > Bitcoin, the other claims it was their Bitcoin. > > Given a Bitcoin address is effectively data, how does anyone own it? > > are there some sort of data laws that provides the means to "own" the > private key? Or the address? > > I'm fairly sure people don't own their biometric signatures, so how could > they own a Bitcoin if they couldn't own their address? > > > >
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