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Email is pretty screwed when Gmail goes down, but we don't get a bunch of people talking about how centralized email really is. There's a difference between "in
by pkulak 14y ago
Email is pretty screwed when Gmail goes down, but we don't get a bunch of people talking about how centralized email really is. There's a difference between "influence" and "control".
- mpyne 14y agoWell that's because even the Great Gmail has not yet reached the point of being "EMail Central". I have a GMail account but I also have at least 3 other email accounts. I don't do Bitcoin though so I guess the big question is whether a service like MtGox is actually reasonably necessary or not. It sounds like what MtGox has above and beyond GMail is the built-in network effect that has propped other exchanges up throughout history; you go there to trade because that's where the traders are. You don't have to go to GMail to exchange electronic mail.