Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 15, 2012, 12:59:05 PM

Use your pretty head for thinking once in your life. The rich are never afraid, of anything. Literally, anything. If MP thought there's even a vague chance p2p markets had utility he'd be doing it.

LOL. So many tech companies looked completely invincible at their peak, earning billions and billions for their shareholders, only to fade into non-existence later...

Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 15, 2012, 12:59:05 PM

It makes absolutely no sense to malign something useful when you can in fact simply take it as your own (which yes, he can/could do).

You cannot take open source technology for yourself, you can either develop or use it.

Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 15, 2012, 12:59:05 PM

The problem here is that the something isn't useful, not that MP can't sell 1% of S.MPOE to buy the entire thing.

That's kinda ironic, have you looked up who is currently sponsoring p2p exchange development?

(For the record, I'm not currently working for anybody and I, in fact, had to refuse some offers.)

Quote from: MPOE-PR on December 15, 2012, 12:59:05 PM

P2p markets will become interesting if/when governments around the world actually start prosecuting people for Bitcoin, provided that if that actually happens Bitcoin still retains some utility/value. Even at that point, they'll still work as a p2p implementation of centralized markets.

Well, the main point is that issuers and shareholders do not depend on a particular exchange platform, they cannot be held as a hostage.

(I'm posting this now because tech sorta kinda works. I mean, we need to fix a couple of problems and make it more robust and friendly, but basically people can create assets and exchange them securely without depending on anyone. (OK, transport is kinda centralized now, but it's a tiny issue.))