Quote from: knight22 on October 09, 2015, 04:48:10 PM

Quote from: Holliday on October 09, 2015, 04:41:13 PM

Quote from: knight22 on October 09, 2015, 04:37:21 PM

Quote from: Holliday on October 09, 2015, 04:13:08 PM

Quote from: knight22 on October 09, 2015, 03:51:34 PM

The value of bitcoin is a decentralized P2P cash system. YOU not being able to run a node is irrelevant.

A Bitcoin enthusiast with dedicated hardware and top tier home internet can't run a full node today without taking measures to cut down on the bandwidth. Increasing the amount of data that must be shared is obviously going to make it even more difficult to possibly downright impossible. I would say that is a huge step away from decentralization.

...And this is under the best possible conditions. What happens if/when some authority decides its time to try and prevent the flow of Bitcoin data (at an ISP level).

So, I'm a bit confused when you say that the value of Bitcoin is as a decentralized, P2P cash system, but it's OK if we move away from decentralization and have fewer peers. Wut?

Having fewer peers =! being centralized.

What's the point of keeping bitcoin crippled for a niche market? There are plenty of altcoin for this exact purpose. Bitcoin's destiny is world domination, for anything else there is an altcoin and everyone is happy.

I didn't say having fewer peers equals centralized. I said that reducing the number of peers is moving away from decentralization.

How far can we move before it becomes easier to harm the network?

Shouldn't we be looking for ways to move towards greater decentralization instead of less decentralization?

What you call crippled, I call nimble.

Everyone agrees that having the most node as possible is good for decentralization but at some point it might also be unnecessary.

Do you think the internet is centralized because you need to rely on business grade ISP? I don't and I won't consider bitcoin to be centralized because nodes will have to be run on business grade hardware. I'm not sure why it would be easier to arm the network because of this.

Tell that to the chinese you entitled little whiner.