I didn't say off-chain, and gave an example of on-chain usecase with trusted middleman.
So, no, that's not what I meant. Sent on the go, excuse the brevity. Original Message From: Adam Back Sent: Saturday, 8 August 2015 09:50 To: Thomas Zander Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] trust If you are saying that some people are happy trusting other people, and so would be perfectly fine with off-chain use of Bitcoin, then we agree and I already said that off-chain use case would be a constructive thing for someone to improve scale and interoperability of in the post you are replying to. However that use case is not a strong argument for weakening Bitcoin's security to get to more scale for that use case. In a world where we could have scale and decentralisation, then of course it would be nice to provide people with that outlook more security than they seem to want. And sometimes people dont understand why security is useful until it goes wrong, so it would be a useful thing to do. (Like insurance, your money being seized by paypal out of the blue etc). And indeed providing security at scale maybe possible with lightning like protocols that people are working on. Adam _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
