Quote from: Thul on October 25, 2018, 10:22:23 AM

Quote from: Random-String-Symphony on October 25, 2018, 10:04:57 AM

Quote from: barborrico on October 25, 2018, 09:34:10 AM

I encourage whole Byteball team to see some Antonopoulos videos to know why byteball is not decentralized, and why you should not market the platform focusing on that. Because it is not true.

12 witnesses = 12 central points of failure but, of course, with the same power of another node (no absolute power like dpos crap) and marked as trustable by majority of users.

Byteball distributes trust amongst 12 witnesses. It is a distributed trust system, not a decentralized one. Decentralized implies no single point of failure, and this is not the case.

I think new platform name should reflect all those things.

What is the single point of failure then? There is none. In fact, I would argue that Byteball is more decentralized by design than Bitcoin or Ethereum. When we have a lot more than 12 different witnesses to choose from it will also be more decentralized in practice.

That would have to be thousands. - How realistic is that?

Just imagine via black bites a growing market for weapons, drugs, child pornography develops...
In connection with this, high-profile entities as witnesses? Seriously?

In the future, every witness would have to fear being overrun by the henchmen of state power.

Thousands are not needed, we need enough to replace a compromised witness, or somebody / a business who wants to quit being one. A few dozen would be sufficient.
Fiat also has a growing market for weapons, drugs, etc. We'll have to find out how law enforcement treats "witnesses", they don't actually do anything that breaks the law you know.