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My mother will be very pleased to hear that she needs to buy terabytes of disks every year instead of using her credit card. Very user friendly. You missed the
by foepys 8y ago
My mother will be very pleased to hear that she needs to buy terabytes of disks every year instead of using her credit card. Very user friendly.
You missed the point about gambling. Please re-read what I said about the odds. You need to trust the service anyways to input the correct result.
Voting requires anonymity. By giving out unique votes, you jeopardized this.
Storing content elsewhere doesn't require a blockchain because it doesn't guarantee that it will still be there. Thus it's not censorship resistant.
- omarchowdhury 8y agoWhy exactly does your mother need to run a full node? You imply incorrectly that to perform a Bitcoin transaction, one needs to have run a full node.
- foepys 8y agoBecause if you don't run a full node you need trust and if you need trust, you can simply use a credit card. This whole crypto currency thing is so stupid because nobody can answer me these very basic questions.
- omarchowdhury 8y agoYou could also do some basic research. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security
- lawn 8y agoYou really don't need to run a full node, that's just decentralization fetishism. Decentralization is just a means to an end: permissionless p2p digital payments. You don't need to personally run a full node for that.