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From: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@jtimon.cc>
To: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] trust
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:17:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABm2gDrJH8-6VPp1Lk4ueJA2ShOU+evTgK-S1zNjuqN8h8Je+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1725491.c810VbMBxP@coldstorage>

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 8. August 2015 12.54.36 Adam Back wrote:
>> On 8 August 2015 at 09:54, Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se> wrote:
>> > I didn't say off-chain, and gave an example of on-chain usecase with
>> > trusted middleman.
>> That's basically the definition of off-chain.  When we say MtGox or
>> coinbase etc are off-chain transactions, that is because a middle man
>> has the private keys to the coins and gave you an IOU of some kind.
>
> I'm so sorry to have to correct you again, and please don't feel bad about
> misreading my post twice.
>
> Sending something to another Bitcoin on-chain user is really on-chain. Please
> believe me when I say that I actually understand my own example.

Adam, I think he means a multisig escrow transaction where the escrow
is trusted by both parties, and other examples like that.
But I don't see how that is relevant, allowing trust to be involved in
different ways is a feature, but it's optional.
I think the point "you don't need to trust anyone to use Bitcoin" remains.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-10 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-08  6:10 [bitcoin-dev] trust Thomas Zander
2015-08-08  8:39 ` Adam Back
2015-08-08  8:54   ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-08  9:24     ` Benjamin
2015-08-08 11:08       ` s7r
2015-08-08 12:01         ` Benjamin
2015-08-11  4:17           ` Joseph Poon
2015-08-08 11:59       ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-08 11:54     ` Adam Back
2015-08-08 12:37       ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-10 20:17         ` Jorge Timón [this message]
2015-08-10 20:43           ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-08-10 21:43           ` Thomas Zander
2015-08-08  9:05 ` Venzen Khaosan
2015-08-10 21:45 ` Gregory Maxwell

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