On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:

Since you keep bringing this up, I'll try to clarify this once again.

I understand the arguments against it. And I think you are agreeing with me - Adam is bemoaning the way developers outsource stuff to third party services, and suggesting it is relevant to the block size debate. And we are saying, no, it's happening because it's easier than doing things in a decentralised way.

The fact that using a centralized service is easier isn't a good reason IMHO. It disregards the long-term, and introduces systemic risk.

But in cases where using a decentralized approach doesn't *add* anything, I cannot reasonably promote it, and that's why I was against getutxos in the P2P protocol.

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Pieter