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From: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:07:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1689926.ZjkxyJjokn@coldstorage> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABaSBaxyQja9bqDsyfWubR1R-Xf2tqmSmU-GW_z7VQTxbBagrQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 30. July 2015 10.24.07 Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev <
> 
> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > What makes you think that when there is such a low availability of
> > transaction
> > space that paying to be included costs you $10, that Bitcoin is not going
> > to
> > be outcompeted and replaced or otherwise regarded as worthless?
> 
> Ah, well that's simple. Because any decentralized system is going to have
> high transaction costs and scarcity anyway.

I've been doing system design for about 10 years and I can understand your 
initial response.

I have to disagree with you, though.  Surely decentralized adds an overhead, 
but in its place it adds replication, redundancy and very cheap expansion of 
capacity.

Remember when we went from single-core CPUs to multi-core (and 
hyperthreading)? Developers were saying it was useless because all apps were 
still single-threaded.  And now, 15 years later, there are fantastic 
frameworks to make this easy.

Same will happen with distributed. Any assumption you wrote above is not 
inherent in the technology.

-- 
Thomas Zander


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-30 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-28 22:25 [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  0:43 ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2015-07-29  0:44   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  0:46   ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-07-29  0:55     ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  2:40       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  3:37         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29  3:46           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-29  5:17             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29 11:18         ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-29  9:59 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-29 10:43   ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29 11:15     ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-29 12:03       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-29 12:13         ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-29 17:17       ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Raystonn .
2015-07-29 19:56       ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Owen
2015-07-29 20:09         ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-07-29 21:28           ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Raystonn .
2015-07-29 22:11             ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-29 23:10               ` Raystonn .
2015-07-30  3:49                 ` Adam Back
2015-07-30  4:51                   ` Andrew LeCody
2015-07-30  8:21                     ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-30  9:15                       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-30 12:29                       ` Gavin
2015-07-30 12:50                         ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30 14:03                           ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 14:05                           ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-30 14:28                             ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30 15:36                             ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 23:33                         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31  0:15                           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-31 21:30                             ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-31 21:43                               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31  6:42                           ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-31 20:45                             ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31 20:57                               ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-08-01 20:22                               ` John T. Winslow
2015-08-01 21:05                                 ` Pieter Wuille
2015-07-30  9:16                   ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-30  9:38                     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 13:33                       ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-07-30 14:10                         ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30 14:52                       ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 15:24                         ` Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 15:55                           ` Gavin Andresen
2015-07-30 17:24                             ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-31 15:27                             ` Bryan Bishop
2015-07-30 16:07                           ` Thomas Zander [this message]
2015-07-30 17:42                             ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 18:02                               ` Mark Friedenbach
2015-07-31  0:22                                 ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-31  8:06                                 ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn'ttemporary Thomas Zander
2015-07-30 15:41                         ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30  9:44             ` odinn
2015-07-29 20:23         ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measureisn't temporary Raystonn .
2015-07-29 11:29     ` [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't temporary Thomas Zander
2015-07-29 18:00     ` Jorge Timón
2015-07-30  7:08       ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-29 16:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-07-29 17:30     ` Sriram Karra
2015-07-29 18:03     ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-29 19:53       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-07-30 14:15         ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-30  9:05       ` odinn

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