{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1pynqzktaxz4ffsv8w0ju86anmqmfjau252vwd43nmw0qdk3xrmtskld7pp","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1pynqzktaxz4ffsv8w0ju86anmqmfjau252vwd43nmw0qdk3xrmtskld7pp","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07\n📝 Original message:We need to make it so mind-numbingly simple to \"run Bitcoin correctly\" that\nthe average user doesn't find reasons to do so in the course of normal\nuse.  Right now, Coinbase and Bitstamp are winning in the user experience\nbattle, which technically endanger the user, and by proxy the Bitcoin\nnetwork.\n\nMulti-sig as a default is a start.  It won't succeed unless the user\nexperience is simply better than trusted third parties, but we need to\nstart the education process with the very basic fundamental: trusting a\nthird-party with full access to your Bitcoin is just replacing one\ncentralized banking system with another.\n\nEric Martindale\nDeveloper Evangelist, BitPay\n+1 (919) 374-2020\nOn Apr 7, 2014 7:05 AM, \"Mike Hearn\" \u003cmike at plan99.net\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e My guess is that a large number of users have lost interest after they\n\u003e\u003e lost their money in MtGox. The 24th of February coincides with the\n\u003e\u003e \"final\" shutdown\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e Sigh. It would not be surprising if MtGox has indeed dealt the community a\n\u003e critical blow in this regard. TX traffic is down since then too:\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popular?timespan=60days\u0026showDataPoints=false\u0026daysAverageString=1\u0026show_header=true\u0026scale=0\u0026address=\n\u003e\n\u003e Judging from comments and the leaked user db, it seems a lot of well known\n\u003e people lost money there   (not me fortunately). I wish I could say people\n\u003e have learned but from the size of the deposit base at Bitstamp they clearly\n\u003e have not. A lot of Bitcoin users don't seem to be ready to be their own\n\u003e bank, yet still want to own some on the assumption everyone else either is\n\u003e or soon will be. So it's really only a matter of time until something goes\n\u003e wrong with some large bitbank again, either Bitstamp or Coinbase.\n\u003e\n\u003e Some days I wonder if Bitcoin will be killed off by people who just refuse\n\u003e to use it properly before it ever gets a chance to shine. The general\n\u003e public doesn't distinguish between \"Bitcoin users\" who deposit with a third\n\u003e party and the real Bitcoin users who don't.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e ------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\u003e Put Bad Developers to Shame\n\u003e Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration\n\u003e Continuously Automate Build, Test \u0026 Deployment\n\u003e Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud.\n\u003e http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_APR\n\u003e _______________________________________________\n\u003e Bitcoin-development mailing list\n\u003e Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net\n\u003e https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development\n\u003e\n\u003e\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20140407/ba5bd602/attachment.html\u003e"}