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Bitcoin philosophical musings and pressures 7 years in [drifted from: txrate, forking, etc]

On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 20:52:52 -0700
odinn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Satoshi was
> apparently thinking about that same issue, of a decentralized market
> within bitcoin, but it just didn't get finished.
> 
> And in February of 2010, it was stripped out of bitcoin.
> 
> (Insert ripping sound here.)
> 
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/5253d1ab77fab1995ede03fb934edd
> 67f1359ba8
> 
> Go OpenBazaar, etc.  They (and some other similar projects) are
> carrying the torch of decentralized marketplaces that don't require
> legacy institutions to operate.



	Thanks. I wasn't aware that the decentralized marketplace
	problem was being worked on at that time and by Satoshi.
	Interesting. 


J.