THELOGICALINDIAN - Andreas Antonopoulos hassupported an affirmation fabricated by Bitcoin broker Tuur Demeester that Bitcoin is both digitalgold and agenda banknote as allotment of the advancing block admeasurement debate
In a blog post Monday, Bitcoin able Andreas Antonopoulos cited Dutch broker Tuur Demeester’s opinion on Bitcoin’s identity, adage he had “captured an important point.”
“We are not adverse a best amid all-on-chain or some-off-chain,” he wrote. “We accept already ancient from all-on-chain and for acceptable reasons.”
Antonopoulos connected that the accepted situation, which he calls “Off-chain trusted third-party custodial,” is bottomless in agreement of security.
Implementation of absolute attestant and lightning arrangement (LN) technology would abolish the anemic credibility in the network, accurately exchanges, yet accord appears to be chain adjoin this outcome.
“Ironically, bodies who article to LN are angrily adjoin #1 but by afraid segwit are absolutely auspicious and agriculture absorption into added counterparty-risk through centralized intermediaries. Demand is already blame us that way,” he continued.
Antonopoulos appeared to be apropos to Coinbase exchange’s off-blockchain transactions, which occur back bill are beatific from one Coinbase annual to another. Such affairs are not arresting on the Blockchain itself, yet makes transfers direct for the users involved.
Data suggests the aggregate of such off-chain affairs remained adequately connected in contempo times.
Nevertheless, Coinbase appears to be absolutely onboard with activating Segwit as both CEO Brian Armstrong and Director of Engineering Charlie Lee accept about voiced their support.
Demeester meanwhile declared that multi-layer Bitcoin ecosystem participants should alluringly assignment calm to accommodate a acceptable defended network.
“The catechism whether Bitcoin care to be agenda banknote or agenda gold represents a apocryphal dichotomy: it can be both a defended and attainable anatomy of money,” he wrote.
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