Re: OECD Working Paper: "The Bitcoin Question"

> On 8 Sep 2014, at 11:59 pm, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 8 September 2014 15:44, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote:
>> Working paper: http://www.oecd.org/daf/fin/financial-markets/The-Bitcoin-Question-2014.pdf
>> By OECD's Director, Financial and Enterprise Affairs, and Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on Financial Markets.
>> http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/adrianblundell-wignall.htm
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>> Too bad this OECD "working paper" not include a request for feedback via some venue, the way the US Fed openly solicited comments on its paper via an expliciat call for submissions.
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> "it is likely that the main reason crypto-currencies are ‘taking off’ in acceptability as a means of payment is due to the anonymity feature"
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I signup to a service in oz, to get more bitcoin.  I had to check my passport, my drivers licence, my electoral role & something else.  I then got an email, to say I needed to send them a photocopy of my passport or license.

Took a few days already. It's hardly anonymous.  I don't think I need that much ID to get a bank account...

> Im unsure what has lead to this conclusion.  The main advantages of crypto currencies are speed of transaction, distance of transaction, low fees, irreversibility and divisibility.  
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Main advantage for me, is in it's use as redeemable tokens, that may be assigned to something for the purpose of accruing economically relevant benefits.  Whether that's via putting a stamp on correspondence (supporting a time stamp, and checksum for example), or obtaining a credit for successfully submitting useful work towards a project - the ability to have some form of token that means, you're able to use for revenue purposes - seems like it's most useful purposes to me.

Not so much replacing currency, but rather a way to be recognised economically for work undertaken on or in connection to, internet communications.

Although, IMO, Anything that makes it easier to democratise globalisation, is probably a good thing.


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