[Cryptography] defaults, black boxes, APIs, and other engineering thoughts

[James A. Donald]

On 2014-01-12 17:54, ianG wrote:
> Bitcoin is the bleeding edge of cryptography at the moment, because
> that's where the crypto and the money is.  Curiously, there, you can be
> your own business and ship your own product.  But I can easily see a
> time where the development team loses its mojo and succumbs to the big
> businesses.  Then what?

Due to scaling problems, bitcoin is increasingly dominated by a rather 
small group.  This is likely to have bad consequences - but as yet, 
still working.