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From: "s7r via bitcoin-dev" <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Sent: 9/20/2015 2:33:38 PM
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report
The general threat model for which we want to scale is: larger user
base
(not necessarily by increasing the blocksize - just increase the
transactions per second using the best way from all points of view),
more use cases for simple people who only do basic stuff, more
popularity but all these without the possibility for some actor to
control more than he should (like a government agency).
Larger user base won't necessarily protect against governments if we
still have chokepoints they can go after. Given that as a currency
Bitcoin currently represents a negligible portion of the world's
economy, even growing the user base by some small factor is at best a
token gesture in our fight against governmental threats. If governments
successfully take down critical pieces of our network infrastructure,
Bitcoin will fail and most people will continue doing business as usual
(using fiat currency), most of them never even noticing anything
noteworthy happened at all.
What we really need to grow is the number of nodes on the network that
participate in its basic infrastructure - namely: miners, validators,
etc...and the more centralized these activities become, the easier it
will be for governments to clamp down.
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