<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub1ac86vemj7ce5z8jyxt39rna3tvwql6xd30ha3vxcd6esysp23d9qrlswfj</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub1ac86vemj7ce5z8jyxt39rna3tvwql6xd30ha3vxcd6esysp23d9qrlswfj</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2015-08-07&#xA;📝 Original message:Please try to focus on constructive technical comments.&#xA;&#xA;On 7 August 2015 at 23:12, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev&#xA;&lt;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt; What will the backlash be when people here that are pushing for &#34;off-chain-&#xA;&gt; transactions&#34; fail to produce a properly working alternative, which&#xA;&gt; essentially means we have to say NO to more users.&#xA;&#xA;But &gt; 99% of Bitcoin transactions are already off-chain.  There are&#xA;multiple competing companies offering consumer &amp; retail service with&#xA;off-chain settlement.&#xA;&#xA;I wasnt clear but it seemed in your previous mail that you seemed to&#xA;say you dont mind trusting other people with your money, and so&#xA;presumably you are OK using these services, and so have no problem?&#xA;&#xA;&gt; At this time and this size of bitcoin community, my personal experience (and&#xA;&gt; I&#39;ve been part of many communities) saying NO to new customers&#xA;&#xA;Who said no to anything?  The systems of off-chain transfer already&#xA;exist and are by comparison to Bitcoins protocol simple and rapid to&#xA;adapt and scale.&#xA;&#xA;Indications are that we can even do off-chain at scale with Bitcoin&#xA;similar trust-minimisation with lightning, and duplex payment&#xA;channels; and people are working on that right now.&#xA;&#xA;I think it would be interesting and useful for someone, with an&#xA;interest in low trust, high scale transactions, to work on and propose&#xA;an interoperability standard and API for such off-chain services to be&#xA;accessed by wallets, and perhaps periodic on-chain inter-service&#xA;netting.&#xA;&#xA;Adam</html></oembed>