[2015-11-23] Core Developers Call for New Bitcoin Software Strategy at MIT

[tyz]

Bitcoin Core developers including Gavin Andresen expanded on their more substantial vision for bitcoin advancement at an MIT event yesterday.

http://www.coindesk.com/mit-media-lab-core-developers-multiple-bitcoin-implementations/

[BitmoreCoin]

"Fields suggested pressure could come if Bitcoin Core developers sought to enable software users to make transactions "entirely anonymous" through their work on the protocol."
There is no need for bitcoin to do that. Monero and Dash can already achieve anonymous transaction. Bitcoin should remain a transparent money.

[Carlton Banks]

There is no need for bitcoin to do that. Monero and Dash can already achieve anonymous transaction. Bitcoin should remain a transparent money.

Anonymity and transactional privacy are not mutually exclusive. Adam Back ably pointed out that anonymity is simply a by-product of fungible money, and so any improvements to privacy/anonymity only contribute further to Bitcoin's inherent money-like properties.