Quote from: dinofelis on March 20, 2017, 08:27:26 AM

That said, I'm losing faith in decentralized systems. I think after all that Sun Tsu was right: the army that wins is the one that obeys its commander:

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The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

I can only think of small scale niche communities with a higher desire for decentralization than for benefit.

The Internet is a counter example. The mass media centralization was defeated by the Internet. Facebook and Google are next to be defeated (along with StackExchange! grrrr)

My decentralization design is to bring the Linus' law (given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow) Internet model to consensus systems. This in theory inverts the economics lamented by the following:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=984
http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/#example-2-delegated-proof-of-stake-dpos

I had some initial doubts about my system (as I was writing it down and thinking it all out) because the choke point is who controls which clients the users download, but the Internet has proven (e.g. BitTorrent) there is no such choke point. So I think I have the solution we need, but peer review will be nice. I'd love peer review right now, but then Ethereum would just adopt it and all my reward would be lost.

Don't expect a perfect nirvana design. There is no such absolute nirvana. Expect something along the lines of the innovation of the Internet. It won't make everything perfect, but hopefully it will change everything.

I need to go back into the programming cave...

Quote from: iamnotback on March 20, 2017, 10:12:29 AM

Quote from: Spoetnik on March 20, 2017, 06:38:05 AM

It has been proven that Steem was a vile rigged pyramid scheme coin and yet Shelby gladly participated and was not long ago posting Steem links around the forum here.. for profit $$$

I was able to cash out ~$6000 of earnings from blogging on Steem (which has sustained me during this years when I was ill with disseminated Tuberculosis and didn't even know which illness I had), which also dovetailed with my research about decentralization. So it was very productive use of my time. Also I still hold 5421 STEEM as a hedge against if Steem actually got their head-out-of-their-ass and promoted their scaling advantages (which are superior to both Dash and Ethereum).

You are still on ignore (not because I dislike you as a human being actually you are often cordial, but because you violated all your own principles by going easy on Dash recently and because you waste my very scarce time with the frequent defense against your ad hominem attacks about actions, motives, etc ... so it is more productive if I don't even know what you are writing about me), but I saw someone quoted your comment in another thread, where you made this same accusation against me.

Most of us are here for a combination of profit and trying to appeal to our idealism about decentralization. Most of us are losing some of our enthusiasm about whether decentralization can really be obtained. But the Internet should be our inspirational example, that maybe it can be achieved. The YUGE distinction is that the Internet is not a total ordering and consensus is. So that is where the centralization always creeps in (via economies-of-scale).

I am not just working on decentralization of consensus systems. My work also includes improvements to the JavaScript ecosystem designing a new transpiler for an improved mainstream programming language. I continue to try to generate value for humanity and earn a living while doing so. I reject your Communism.