Quote from: coinrevo on December 16, 2013, 03:50:56 PM

Well, it is quite likely than these issues have been raised before and thought of by smart people. This is consensus by authority I guess. Improving the system is a very hard problem.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=437
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1647

Thanks for links - it just shows that many peoples have similar view that creditability is compromised by checkpoints, and checkpoints solves really tiny problem, which is not an issue at all.
On the other side developers still did not removed checkpoints since 2010 (congrats, nice decentralization, and consensus!) because they afraid of something, or have some strange interests to destroy Bitcoin credibility.

Bitcoin advertised decentralization as the main feature. I think people should know that it is not as decentralized as advertised.