Quote from: Come-from-Beyond on February 12, 2014, 08:41:41 PM

Quote from: ManDrone on February 12, 2014, 08:39:08 PM

So it sounds like everyone(?) is behind this "umbrella" of protection from a hub. Who owns a hub? Is the forging based then on the "hub level" IP? Do people choose which hub to be a part of or is it proximity based or...? Very new to this, so hope these aren't old questions (I'm familiar with traditional cryptos, just not his one).

Anyone who can afford to pay for antiDDoS protection can own a hub. People do choose hub(s) to lease forging power to. To keep the network as decentralized as possible they could split forging power to 100 parts and lease to 100 different hubs.

So the perceived overall/network (not personal) advantage of transparent forging (as opposed to secret forging) is that the speeding up of the confirmations due to knowing where to send transaction details to trumps the headache for the common man of trying to disentangle the technical stuff required to "lease" their CPU power to a "hub" and the consequences of most naive users not bothering to lease (due to ignorance, laziness, don't-have-to-do-this-for-any-other-crypto-ness)? This seems like a serious barrier to entry for the (future) common user. How would grandma know to do any of this shit when she just wants to use the NXT crypto like she uses her Bitcoins (this is me imagining the future)? It seems by not being part of a leased pool she may be subject to a DDoS at worst (her turn to forge is up and some bad actor is blasting her IP) and at best will never get any "forging" interest (because she is not part of a hub).

If I am correct, don't the NXT devs see this as a (serious) barrier to adoption? I have a background in psychology/usability/user experience so these "common man's experience" scenarios I ask about are how I approach a lot of new technology. The fact that there is a technical solution to an issue does not mean the issue disappears (e.g. protecting accounts with passwords).

Not trying to be combative or annoying, just trying to understand.