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Because of the value that the platform offers the world.
Which anyone can clone as easy as git clone github:ethereum/geth Having your own private platform with smart contracts and everything. Not congested with cryptokitties and etherdelta.
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That doesn't work when you (or your small community) face thousands or millions of spammers or abusive users. People will just turn to centralised censorship/filtering authorities as they do with e-mail (even if you install SA on your own server, you will use blacklists maintained by others).
>That doesn't work when you (or your small community) face thousands or millions of spammers or abusive users. Umm... yes it does. That's precisely the role of a whitelist.
Do you have a fix to that?
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>That doesn't work when you (or your small community) face thousands or millions of spammers or abusive users. Umm... yes it does. That's precisely the role of a whitelist.
Last time I checked whitelists don't work in permissionless networks (and no real identity). Do you have a fix to that?
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"When it pops" I hear that a lot. Many tokens have a floor, which is the actual value of the tokenized assets. Filecoin's floor is the cost/demand for actual hard drive space. Tickets to artist concerts tokenized would have a floor. Our token (Intercoin.org) has a floor represented by actual economies of communities. Bitcoin on the other hand, has no floor. Just like Myspace vs Facebook or AltaVista vs Google, people…
Any plans on doing an ICO?
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Last time I checked whitelists don't work in permissionless networks (and no real identity). Do you have a fix to that?
I'm not sure what you mean. Why do you say whitelists don't work in a decentralized context?
(But actually content-based filtering may not be too impossible now that I think..)
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> I consider network censorship to be a feature, not a bug. No one’s going to stop you from using an unfree, censorious system if you want to. However, we’re going to object vociferously if you try to force it on everyone else. > I want my uber driver to have insurance and a quick background check. The advantage of censorship-resistant markets is that added features are opt-in. I don’t really care if my uber driver i…
> No one’s going to stop you from using an unfree, censorious system if you want to. However, we’re going to object vociferously if you try to force it on everyone else. You didn't really answer the bits where he was more or less discussing government regulations. Your answer doens't relate to what he stated.
Actually, looking back, which bits are you even talking about?
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>Throughout history middlemen have suffered a common fate. They get squeezed out at every opportunity. This is just... Absolute nonsense. Just factually incorrect. Middlemen, example Amazon, have never been stronger. People complain about it on HN all the time. Anyways, people use middlemen and are happy to pay the cost because they provide a useful service. They aren't just arbitrarily injecting themselves into tran…
> Middlemen, example Amazon, have never been stronger. The strength of a middleman can be directly measured by how much they mark up prices. Does amazon really mark up prices more than the brick and mortar retailers it replaced?