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> If you aren't willing to run your own geth instance and understand Solidity/EVM, it's not really decentralized for you. This is how I feel about the exchange
by thr0wawayf00 5y ago
> If you aren't willing to run your own geth instance and understand Solidity/EVM, it's not really decentralized for you.
This is how I feel about the exchanges generally, which wield an incredible amount of influence in the crypto markets, for better or worse. It's a complete tangent, but reading about Tether's shifting story around its capital reserves terrifies me.
I have yet to see a blockchain implementation that's easy enough to use on its own that it could achieve widespread adoption without a strong market desire to have someone else manage the complexity of it for you. People talk about decentralization all day long while completely ignoring the fact that we've just shifted the centralized authority from one entity to another.
- agumonkey 5y agoThat summarizes a lot. The system is not simple at all. The benefits are only potentially here (eth fees are wild). The solution involves the opposite of religious principles the mob believes in.
- fragmede 5y agoIt's more than the mob believes it to be an ecumenical matter and you want it to be otherwise. If you want to participate, but aren't willing to trust someone else (which no one would blame you for), then your move is to run your own node. Like, that's the entire premise of blockchain technology - no one trusts each other - but no one has to!
- thr0wawayf00 5y ago> no one trusts each other - but no one has to! Isn’t the whole point of a market that we trust each other enough to have a shared understanding of what value is? How can a market function when you trust no one else in it? Cash is a perfect example of this: it’s only worth something because we all agree that it’s worth something, we can’t eat it or do anything else with it other than to exchange it for goods. Crypto isn’t any different. It will be interesting how this holds up if Tether is actually just “printing” money as they go. If the rumors are true and they go bust or are shut down, one could easily see that event catalyzing a crypto market meltdown similar to what we saw in 2008 where speculation was out of control. Will the energy remain in the crypto space if the crypto markets fall victim to the very thing they were created to prevent?
- couchand 5y ago> Will the energy remain in the crypto space if the crypto markets fall victim to the very thing they were created to prevent? Yes, because the energy in the cryptocurrency space is based not on rational analysis but religious fervor. The inconvenient objective facts will be explained away rather than addressed.
- agumonkey 5y agoThere are some philosophical question. Even trust need trustlessness at first. Things don't couple blindly. But ultimately I believe a good system is where trust is high.
- cblconfederate 5y ago> that we trust each other enough to have a shared understanding of what value is No, hence why we need the state to print the money, regulate the markets, and put the bad guys in jail.
- kaczordon 5y agoThis is how I feel about the exchanges generally, which wield an incredible amount of influence in the crypto markets, for better or worse. This isn’t really true as there’s a bunch of decentralized AMM’s(automated market maker) now: uniswap, sushiswap, pancakeswap
- gruez 5y ago>I have yet to see a blockchain implementation that's easy enough to use on its own Bitcoin core is pretty easy to run yourself, no technical skills required.
- cblconfederate 5y agoyou d have to define 'pretty easy' and 'technical skills'