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Some ideas for native Bitcoin apps

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Re: Some ideas for native Bitcoin apps

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Out of these 4 categories, marketplaces is the one that I think has the most potential for a breakaway change. Micro-payments, micro-incentives and any kind of a scaling down of transactions is something I'm not exactly sure about. Maybe there's some cool stuff here, but I would be surprised. Marketplaces though are a different story. Marketplaces have been developing into giants since the internet began and the fina…

what you said and decentralized marketplace could emerge with bitcoin, where marketplace works like a blockchain explorer. Craigslist + bitcoin = Alibaba

Re: Some ideas for native Bitcoin apps

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post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ripple/Stellar is even more of a patchwork than Bitcoin. At least Bitcoin was created by a cohort of folks well-versed in the computer science of consensus and has some rigor behind it, Ripple is just a hacked up scheme with a (flawed) "whitepaper" as marketing. Same with Stealar unless David Mazieres makes some significant changes to it.

Joyce from Stellar here. Prof. David Mazieres is creating a new provably-correct version of the consensus system and will be publishing a white paper that will be in line with his normal, rigorous academic standards. In addition, Graydon Hoare (creator of Rust) has also joined the Stellar team from Mozilla. Now that Stellar supports over 2.3 million wallets, making it the largest implementation of this system, we hav…

+1 for David, +1 for anyone from the Rust team, looking forward to seeing the outcome.
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