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From: Erik Aronesty <erik@q32.com>
To: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [bitcoin-dev] ossification and misaligned incentive concerns
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 14:24:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJowKgJXxS3L=pQR=jhSXBgdDR9k5mwPyKhKkuFESw5_qOgdrQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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currently, there are providers of anonymity services, scaling services,
custody, and other services layered on top of bitcoin using trust-based and
federated models.

as bitcoin becomes more popular, these service providers have increasingly
had a louder "voice" in development and maintenance of the protocol

holders generally want these features

but service providers have an incentive to maintain a "moat" around their
services

in summary, making privacy, scaling and vaulting "hard" for regular users,
keeping it off-chain and federated...  is now incentivised among a vocal,
but highly technical, minority

is anyone else worried about this?

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-11-03 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-03 18:24 Erik Aronesty [this message]
2023-11-05 14:39 ` [bitcoin-dev] ossification and misaligned incentive concerns JK
2023-11-05 14:59   ` Erik Aronesty
2023-11-05 17:25     ` JK
2023-11-05 18:43 ` alicexbt
2023-11-05 21:00 ` Ryan Grant
2023-11-07  8:58 vjudeu
2023-11-07 12:24 ` JK

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