Quote from: RoadStress on March 17, 2015, 10:59:13 PM

Quote from: danielpbarron on March 17, 2015, 10:13:49 PM

Quote from: RoadStress on March 17, 2015, 09:39:44 PM

Are you suggesting that people are better off with their private keys handed off to a 3rd party just because they do not want to keep a full copy of the ledger?

Yes! I am pointing out that there is little difference. If you do not validate the transactions, you might as well not have the keys.

Stop imposing your stupid views. Why should you or your boss MP decide that if users do not validate the transactions they shouldn't keep their private keys?

So you are against centralized nodes which can be very easily white or black listed, but you are pro trusting private keys to a 3rd party. BEST RETARD ADVISE. You should get a Darwin award for this stupidity which you just vomited. Really!

I have refuted your objections on another thread. Attached is that refutation.

Quote from: danielpbarron on March 18, 2015, 03:47:59 AM

Quote from: RoadStress on March 17, 2015, 10:56:46 PM

So now you are trying to force every bitcoin user to have a full node? Just like every webpage visitor has a full server in his house? Satoshi never visioned such a world. He stated that the full nodes will be centralized and that people will use Light clients. Why are you trying to impose YOUR point of view on everyone else? Why don't you let everyone to decide if they are ok with centralized nodes or not? Why do you think that there will not be some kind of trusted full nodes service where people can whitelist and blacklist centralized nodes? Stop trying to limit stuff and stop being MP dog who just follows orders!

If you aren't running a full node, you aren't using bitcoin! That's not me "forcing" anything; it's just a fact. The more apt analogy is gold backed paper currency -- those handling the physical gold are like the full node operators, and those who just pass around paper bills are like the thin client users. It's not inherently wrong to use the bills rather than the metal, but the system shouldn't be crafted around the paper. Your suggestion is that I shouldn't mind that all the gold be stored in a few "trusted" warehouses rather than dispersed throughout the world in many different locations. You seem to gloss over the fact that your level of trust with the nodes isn't the issue; it's that there being few of them makes it trivial for a government to seize the whole thing. Was the demise of the Liberty Dollar due to a lack of trust from his clients? No. It was because a rouge state stole his assets and arrested him.

For what it's worth, MP has not "ordered" me to do anything. I waste my time on the forums against his recommendation. I can't find it in the logs, but I recall asking him if I should post here and him responding in the negative. How about you stop "limiting stuff" to what some bad programmer said and stop following the orders of UnSavoryGarnish.