David Rysdam <da...@rysdam.org> writes: > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:46:53 -0400, Ben Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Peer-to-peer is two guys meeting on a street corner and saying "Hey, > > wanna buy some Bitcoins?" :) > > What if 100 guys meet on a street corner? And what if that street corner > is then blocked, "DoS'd" if you will, by a rival gang? Isn't that > exactly what happened here?
What if, instead of a guy buying bitcoins for himself, he's buying bitcoins on a street-corner so that he can use them to buy bread for his family? Is that exchange of bitcoins then no longer a peer-to-peer transaction? And what if, rather than buying the bread himself, he gives his family the bitcoins so that they can buy bread themselves? And what if he has a very _large_ family? And what if, rather than just _giving_ the bitcoins to his family, he sells them for price that is _practically_ giving them away? And what if his family don't like bread? What if they preferred, let's say..., cigarettes.... -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
