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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Gavin is an Agent
by
acid_rain
on 28/06/2015, 18:01:35 UTC
To fix those flaws and allow it to achieve its stated goal, we need a few more ingenious inventions; which we cannot guess when oor whether they will be made.

What is Bitcoin's stated goal Jorge?

It is written right at the beginning of Satoshi's paper, as clearly as it could be.

Quote from: Bitcoin.pdf
A  purely   peer-to-peer   version   of   electronic   cash   would   allow   online
payments  to  be  sent   directly  from  one  party  to  another  without   going  through  a
financial institution.

And which flaws are preventing it from achieving this stated goal?

coinbase, bitpay et al. being the new financial institutions? ^^

You will always have the coinbases and bitpays of the world. Lamen people need to be spoon fed and things made easy. In software engineering terms its called user-friendliness. Otherwise there would never be a major adoption of anything.