Hi Maxmot and dubignyp!

What is the idea to have 2 exchanges (centralized and semi-decentralized)?
Do you mean that for example you can store your long term investments in a decentralized way and to trade daily in a centralized exchange ?

Good question! So the first idea is to provide users with the choice. The choice between centralization and decentralization. Both mode are accessible through the same user interface, with almost the same user experience. But in decentralized mode, you can trade without account, in full anonymity and of course you remain in control of your keys.

Let say that if you are a normal trader, who will not make trade on high frequency (like several buy/sell during the same hours, like short term trader do) you will chose the centralized exchange, since settlement is instant. If speed of settlement is not a priority for you then the semi-decentralized will be ok.

Another reason why we have the two exchanges, is to deliver a very smooth path to decentralization. We want to onboard millions of mainstream, who will probably chose the centralized solutions as they will not want to deal with their private keys, and we will be able to convert them slowly to the decentralization.

Hi!
Karina from the Jarvis team here. What do you mean exactly?

Do you mean what the benefits are or how technically it will work?

I completely agree - as long as you have invested wisely, you will be ok. Especially if you're investing in a project with a revenue/ reward sharing token and the project is strong.

Also, my advice is to not sell at  a high loss - if you're losing anyway and it's an affordable amount, keep it, to see how the coin will turn.

There are some projects doing this already! It is possible and it can be very democratising to the crypto sphere. I don't want to get banned for promotion, so I won't post any names here, but search for some projects like this.

I don't think it will crash but maybe it will become one of the many means of payment - maybe we will come into a world of bartering. Every asset can be tokenized using smart contracts and blockchain. Why not create a borderless future?

Thanks for the reply! Wouldn't that bring in more centralisation, though - we see in some blockchains (won't name anyone) how controlling the nodes, even if aspiring to be through democracy, is actually just central control of the nodes and therefore the chain.

Recently, Gavin Andresen posted about the fact that alternative blockchains can be open for malicious viruses and can spread them like wildfire.

Here's what he said:

" When I first heard about bitcoin, my questions were:

1) Can it possibly work (do the ideas for how it works make sense)?
2) Is it a scam?
3) If it is not a scam, could it open my computer up to viruses/trojans if I run it?

I answered those questions by:

1) Reading and understanding Satoshi's whitepaper.  Then thinking about it for a day or two and reading it again.
2) Finding out everything I could about the project.  I read every forum thread here (there were probably under a hundred threads back then) and read Satoshi's initial postings on the crypto mailing list.
3) Downloaded and skimmed the source code to see if it looked vulnerable to buffer overflow or other remotely exploitable attacks.

If I were going to experiment with an alternative block-chain, I'd go through the same process again. But I'm an old conservative fuddy-duddy. "

He's making some awesome points and it really made me wonder - what can future blockchain developers and architects do to make blockchains safer and what should investors look for in a project in that safety aspect?

Thanks all!