On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 01:57:14PM -0700, Mark Friedenbach wrote: > On 03/24/2014 01:34 PM, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > > I'm here because I want to sell corn for bitcoin, and I believe it will be > > more profitable for me to do that with a bitcoin-blockchain-based system > > in which I have the capability to audit the code that executes the trade. > > A discussion over such a system would be on-topic. Indeed I have made my > own proposals for systems with that capability in the past: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/31322676/ > > There's no reason to invoke alts however. There are ways where this can > be done within the bitcoin ecosystem, using bitcoins: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/32108143/ > > > I think that's fair, so long as we limit bitcoin-development discussion to > > issues that are relevant to the owners of the hashrate and companies that > > pay developer salaries. > > > > What I'm asking for is some honesty that Bitcoin is a centralized system > > and to stop arguing technical points on the altar of > > distributed/decentralized > > whatever. It's pretty clear if you want decentralized you should go with > > altchains. > > Bitcoin is not a centralized system, and neither is its development. I > don't even know how to respond to that. Bringing up altchains is a total > red herring. > > This is *bitcoin*-development. Please don't make it have to become a > moderated mailing list.
When I can pick up a miner at Best Buy and pay it off in 9 months I'll agree with you that bitcoin *might* be decentralized. Maybe there's a chance this *will* happen eventually, but right now we have a couple of mining cartels that control most of the hashrate. There are plenty of interesting alt-hash-chains for which mass produced, general purpose (or gpgpu-purpose) hardware exists and is in high volume mass production. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
