My mother will be very pleased to hear that she needs to buy terabytes of disks every year instead of using her credit card. Very user friendly.
You missed the point about gambling. Please re-read what I said about the odds. You need to trust the service anyways to input the correct result.
Voting requires anonymity. By giving out unique votes, you jeopardized this.
Storing content elsewhere doesn't require a blockchain because it doesn't guarantee that it will still be there. Thus it's not censorship resistant.
Re:CryptoKitties sales plummet in popularity
by omarchowdhury on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:38PM
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Why exactly does your mother need to run a full node? You imply incorrectly that to perform a Bitcoin transaction, one needs to have run a full node.
Because if you don't run a full node you need trust and if you need trust, you can simply use a credit card. This whole crypto currency thing is so stupid because nobody can answer me these very basic questions.
You really don't need to run a full node, that's just decentralization fetishism.
Decentralization is just a means to an end: permissionless p2p digital payments. You don't need to personally run a full node for that.
Re:CryptoKitties sales plummet in popularity
by omarchowdhury on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:58AM
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You could also do some basic research. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security
Even with full 100MB blocks you're only looking at ~5TB of storage for a whole year. This is easily attainable for many people, including myself, today. The point isn't to have everyone run full nodes you know, some trust is acceptable.
The fact is cryptocurrencies work very well as a payment system today.
> then I question why you would bet your money at a place where you can't trust the odds
Obviously here you wouldn't need to trust the odds as they are verifiable.
> I don't know why anybody would want that. If you don't control who votes, you end up with rigged votes.
You can have a voting scheme where you give out unique votes, centrally, which you can then yourself without trust verify that your vote is correctly counted. Why anyone would want that should be clear.
> you mean immutable: nobody sane wants that
Many people would want that. There are of course drawbacks.
You can also store hashes of content which you can store elsewhere which you can verify. Like many torrent sites work.