Quote from: afbitcoins on August 07, 2017, 11:46:42 PM

A couple of years ago I was much more in the spirit of bitcoin as the way to defeat Central Banks, the European Central Bank (why you have that name?). Now I'm just in it for the profit which is working out well but doesn't taste so sweet anymore. Money men taking over.

yeah. i'm kind of leaning that way myself too. there aren't enough people who'll resist the lure of serious money. i'm starting to wonder whether there'll be a surface layer of decentralisation to keep people on board, but everyone'll collectively choose not to look a little deeper to keep those plates spinning.

i can't answer any questions about my name. it's institutional policy.

Quote from: afbitcoins on August 07, 2017, 11:55:15 PM

Maybe I'm naive but why can't we have big blocks and some kind of way of storing the blockchain in a distributed way across the network. Would that not allow us to have big blocks and avoid big data centres?

check the node count. it's been slowly falling away. it's blockchain size, bandwidth, downloading. hassle. there ain't many committed enough. huge blocks will take out many of the people who want to keep going but it won't be practical for them.

maybe there'll be some holdouts but not enough to really count any more. but who knows?