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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Poll: Mike H. Interview - Convincing or not?
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knight22
on 01/10/2015, 02:02:46 UTC
https://openbazaar.org/
http://www.joystream.co/
https://www.changetip.com/

As per example. And that just the beginning. Too bad all of these platforms will have to move to another more desirable blockchain that scales in a competitive manner at some point.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the examples here really need the raw power of censorship-proof money if there is any chance that bloating the chain with every transaction under the sun (excuse the exaggeration) may actually harm Bitcoin's ability to remain censorship-proof (which I most certainly think it will). I would honestly prefer these transactions never touch the block chain (unless there is some kind of aggregation).

Clearly we disagree on this point and I doubt very much that either of us will be able to see the other's point of view. Perhaps the best answer is truly a fork so both sides can move forward with their specific goals in mind.

I'm curious, do you run a full node knight22?

OpenBazaar and joystream absolutely need censorship-poof money to operate. The thing is, good enough decentralization is good enough. If there is censorship, then these platforms will just migrate to another blockchain. There is no value to add censorship on a blockchain at all.  

To answer your question I do run a node but I don't mind if I can't at some point but I'm also sure the market will come up with cheap solutions so I can continue for a long time ahead regardless of how bitcoin scales.