[Cryptography] Bitcoin is a disaster.

[Kick Ass Bitch]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 8:30 PM Ismail Kizir <ikizir at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 4:03 PM Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:
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>> It is my opinion that Bitcoin is a failure.  Worse than that, it's a
>> disaster.
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> I totally agree.
> Internet also became a disaster.
> We're very far from original ideas: Uncensored, decentralized ideals are
> forgotten.
>
The technology adopted in the basic protocols of the internet would never
allow this, IP / TCP and DHCP were not decentralized.
Now, there are many technologies that work over the internet in a
decentralized way, P2P, torrent, IPFS, most cryptocurrencies, I2P, TOR and
more.
The next step is to provide technologies and protocols for a truly
decentralized internet.


> I remember, in the beginning, governments were really afraid of people's
> reactions, even to make small regulations.
> Today, we don't even discuss before accepting any regulation about
> Internet.
> Infrastructure is almost completely controlled/owned by governments or
> cartels. To dig ground for your own fiber-obtic infrastructure is nearly
> impossible, even for big cartels, in Turkey for example. (I even don't
> mention about ordinary people/small scale companies)
> ICANN fees are very high. Anonymity is almost impossible.
> We even need "permission" to publish sites: We need "broadcasting"
> licenses. Youtube publishing is considered same as "National TV
> broadcasting" and requires licences!
> They degenerated the idea of "privacy" and now, GDPR(Europe), or
> KVVK(Turkey) and similars are used as censoring and contolling mechanisms:
> If you want to start to publish a site, you need a "base country".
> Theoretically, it may be possible. But in reality, it's almost impossible
> to move your site from a country to another, because of GDPR rules! You
> need to have a physical place. And of course, you are under total control
> of one government and local elites!
> We forgot our initial ideas.
> I think, we need a "new kid on the block", which will revive old ideals by
> unifying those two ideas: Internet and cryptocoin.
>
> I don't know exactly how we can do. But I have at least one base idea:
> "Contributing to infrastructure will also mean mining".
> Roof networks are not very promising as a large scale internet backbone.
> But I have hope from this list. If anyone, has a project based on
> "original ideals of Internet and cryptocoins", I am ready to contribute.
>
> Regards
> Ismail Kizir
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