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From: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>
To: Eric Martindale <eric@ericmartindale.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes?
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 14:46:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140407194601.GP3180@nl.grid.coop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAf19Wrz0u_e5V9Gb=_CAG=mHtE9nA_VETgYZeCXZqwaGeYKuQ@mail.gmail.com>

I understand the theoretical benefits of multi-sig. But if you want
to make this mind-numbingly simple, do it on the *existing* single-sig.

But why in the world do we not have a *business* that offers bitcoin
wallet insurance? The bitcoin world (and this list) ran around blaming
MtGox and users for being 'stupid' to trust mtgox.

So start a multi-level marketing business that offers *insurance* so
if your bitcoin wallet gets hacked/stolen/whatever, your 'upstream'
or whomever sold you the wallet comes to your house with a new 
computer or installs the new wallet software, or whatever, or just
makes it good.

Now, if the **insurance underwriter** decides that multisig will 
reduce fraud, and **tests it**, then I'd say we do multi-sig. But right
now we are just a bunch of technology wizards trying to force our own
opinions about what's right and 'simple' for end users without ever
asking the damn end-users.

And then we call the end-users idiots because some scammer calls them
and says "I'm calling from Microsoft and your computer is broke, please
download this software to fix it".

Multi-sig is more magical moon-math that scammers will exploit to con
your grandma out of bitcoin, and then your friends will call her a stupid
luddite for falling for it.

Fix the cultural victim-blaming bullshit and you'll fix the node bleeding
problem.

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:15:15AM -0400, Eric Martindale wrote:
> We need to make it so mind-numbingly simple to "run Bitcoin correctly" that
> the average user doesn't find reasons to do so in the course of normal
> use.  Right now, Coinbase and Bitstamp are winning in the user experience
> battle, which technically endanger the user, and by proxy the Bitcoin
> network.
> 
> Multi-sig as a default is a start.  It won't succeed unless the user
> experience is simply better than trusted third parties, but we need to
> start the education process with the very basic fundamental: trusting a
> third-party with full access to your Bitcoin is just replacing one
> centralized banking system with another.
> 
> Eric Martindale
> Developer Evangelist, BitPay
> +1 (919) 374-2020
> On Apr 7, 2014 7:05 AM, "Mike Hearn" <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
> 
> > My guess is that a large number of users have lost interest after they
> >> lost their money in MtGox. The 24th of February coincides with the
> >> "final" shutdown
> >
> >
> > Sigh. It would not be surprising if MtGox has indeed dealt the community a
> > critical blow in this regard. TX traffic is down since then too:
> >
> >
> > https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popular?timespan=60days&showDataPoints=false&daysAverageString=1&show_header=true&scale=0&address=
> >
> > Judging from comments and the leaked user db, it seems a lot of well known
> > people lost money there   (not me fortunately). I wish I could say people
> > have learned but from the size of the deposit base at Bitstamp they clearly
> > have not. A lot of Bitcoin users don't seem to be ready to be their own
> > bank, yet still want to own some on the assumption everyone else either is
> > or soon will be. So it's really only a matter of time until something goes
> > wrong with some large bitbank again, either Bitstamp or Coinbase.
> >
> > Some days I wonder if Bitcoin will be killed off by people who just refuse
> > to use it properly before it ever gets a chance to shine. The general
> > public doesn't distinguish between "Bitcoin users" who deposit with a third
> > party and the real Bitcoin users who don't.
> >
> >
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-07 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-07 11:34 [Bitcoin-development] Why are we bleeding nodes? Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 12:17 ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-07 13:43   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-04-07 14:05     ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 14:15       ` Eric Martindale
2014-04-07 14:23         ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 19:46         ` Troy Benjegerdes [this message]
2014-04-08  3:13         ` kjj
2014-04-08  7:50           ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-09 10:38         ` Wendell
2014-04-09 11:15           ` Wladimir
2014-04-07 14:45       ` Tom Harding
2014-04-07 12:19 ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 12:26   ` Pieter Wuille
2014-04-07 12:34     ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 12:34     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-05-20 18:38     ` Isidor Zeuner
2014-04-07 13:50 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 13:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 13:58     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 14:04       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08 11:28   ` Jesus Cea
2014-04-07 15:45 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 15:53   ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 16:02     ` Jameson Lopp
2014-04-07 16:27     ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 16:57       ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:01         ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 17:16           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:35             ` Brent Shambaugh
2014-04-07 17:40               ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 17:44                 ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 17:45                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 17:50                 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 18:30                   ` Arne Brutschy
2014-04-07 17:56                 ` Brent Shambaugh
2014-04-07 17:46             ` Justus Ranvier
2014-04-07 17:39     ` Chris Williams
2014-04-07 18:23       ` Mike Hearn
2014-04-07 18:35         ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 18:49           ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:00             ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 18:48               ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 19:02               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:05                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 19:03               ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-07 19:13                 ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-07 19:20                 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 19:13                   ` Mark Friedenbach
2014-04-07 19:36                     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 21:46                     ` Ricardo Filipe
2014-04-07 19:30                   ` Paul Lyon
2014-04-07 19:50                     ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-07 21:48                       ` Tier Nolan
2014-04-07 21:56                         ` Gregory Maxwell
2014-04-08  3:44             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-08  7:24               ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2014-04-08  7:59               ` Tamas Blummer
2014-04-08 17:18       ` Andrew LeCody
2014-04-07 17:07 ` Drak
2014-05-20  8:15   ` bitcoingrant
2014-05-20  8:42     ` Mike Hearn
2014-05-20 14:37     ` Eugen Leitl
2014-05-20 14:52       ` Gmail
2014-05-20 18:46         ` Andy Alness
2014-05-20 19:17           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-05-20 20:09             ` Andy Alness
2014-05-20 20:22               ` Jeff Garzik
2014-04-07 21:55 Paul Lyon
2014-04-07 22:14 ` Tier Nolan

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