Michael Ep @[email protected]

So, another Bitcoiner exodus to Mastodon, likely short-lived.

Been trying out various decentralization and federation projects for decades already, but it's hard to defeat the network effects of the established players.

I think an alternative to Twitter has to be pure p2p (not bound to "instances"), and offer features that everybody wants and only such a censorship-resistent architecture can offer (kinda what Bitcoin does wrt finance).

Copying is not enough, it has to innovate.

I see a lot of bitcoiners supporting Gab. Don't. Gab are hypocrites.

http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2018/07/18/gab-not-free-speech/

For those who didn't know, things like Bitcoin exchanges and ATMs were long not possible to set up in Germany due to unviable licensing requirements, but recently there was a ruling that changed things, and it only took a few days for the first commercial ATM to pop up, and it's here in Munich.

https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1054651218193211392

At our last meetup we dared to look at projects for wider "blockchain" use cases again. We only do this once every few months. ;) https://twitter.com/bitcoinmuc/status/1054447085460865024

My personal verdict:

Yes uncensorable AI probably requires decentralization. But a used car meta-marketplace? Only if the technological costs to run this are lower than the regulatory.

Yes I also want the magical p2p-distributed stack with storage and computation that can do everything a centralized system can do, but will we ever be there?

Video of Stepan Snigirev's presentation from our last meetup in Munich. "Batman as a service", with #lightning support build on #arduino ⚡🦇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAMutjndyiA