Friday 2 September 2016

Roger Ver: "The discontinuation of Shared Send at Blockchain.info was due to threats of violence made by strangers in government."

  • Original quote:

  • Sharedcoin.com used to look like this with descriptions of how it would supposedly provide you with transaction privacy. It now redirects to the bitcoin wiki.

  • The Shared Coin repo has been scrubbed from their Github, including all clones of it.

Is the UK or US government really threatening private companies with physical violence for offering a privacy service? If so, what other events like this aren't we hearing about?


Response from Roger Ver:

I'd like to clarify that my comment was just in reference to ALL government laws being threats of violence, and ultimately death threats for those who don't comply. Other than general legal uncertainty about Bitcoin and crypto coins in general, I'm not aware of any government agents targeting shared send or Blockchain.info directly with threats of violence other than the usual things like "You must get permission from us in the form of a business license to do much of anything". When time permits, I plan to add some privacy tools for the public to use on Bitcoin.com. If anyone has some specific ideas and want to get paid to create it, contact us at jobs@bitcoin.com. To read more about my general views on governments issuing threats of violence, I recently wrote down some of my thoughts in this interview: http://bit.ly/2bIk1VG

Emphasis mine, I'm not sure what to make of the rapid change in story.



Submitted September 02, 2016 at 08:31PM by InstantDossier http://bit.ly/2bPzxj6

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