[knarf]

I've tried to read a few of these types of posts and it occurs to me, all the comments that say something like, "We could ... or they should ..." etc. is really the rule making committee !

If I'm correct ( and I believe I am), that this is all an invention and the tool used is a miner, then the same mining concept and technology is surfing these threads (not only on FR) and conglomerating the suggestions

And what makes anyone think the honcho in this whole thing is NOT an obama created EO appointee of some "foreign finance commissioner" (that y'all thought was a legitimate, if useless office, etc.)

???

[Errant]

There is a committee that controls bitcoin's development, and of course it values the input of the entire bitcoin community. Then there are numerous other digital currencies bitcoin must compete with, which ensures the whole shebang moves along in a positive direction.

And what makes anyone think the honcho in this whole thing is NOT an obama created EO appointee...

Because bitcoin was created by "geeks" who are not known for their worship of centralized control over anything. That's not to say that in the future, some government or central bank will not take the technology and attempt to use it to their advantage. But again, there is that competition thing from all the other digital currencies.