"why not tackle a few issues" the way i see it the scalability problem is bitcoins only issue. And yes there is a scalability problem, right now bitcoin users store every bitcoin transaction in the world on their computers, if 7 billion people were using bitcoin we couldnt be expected to record every time anyone anywhere in the world purchased a couple of bananas or a pack of gum.
Which is a design issue that could be fixed in a much cleaner way than "Hey I got an idea, let's just copy and paste the whole source tree!"
The fallacy here, in my mind, is that Bitcoin (and BillyBobCoin and InsertPersonsNameHereCoin and TotallyDifferentFromBitcoinCoin and whatever other name Bitcoin carbon copies will have) all share the same flaw. And your proposed solution to fix this - as far as I can infer - is to start completely anew, rather than solve the problem properly. It doesn't sit well in my mind and there has to be a more elegant solution.
My apologies in advance if I've misinterpreted anything, by the way.
oh no i agree it would be very nice if we could just solve that problem. Just no one has been able to figure that one out, atleast that is without resorting to increased centralization. Perhaps someone could invent a cryptocurrency where users are responsible for storing all of the data about their own transactions and the blockchain simply used to store a means for proving that your record of your own transactions is accurate.
technically speaking i have NO idea how or if something like this could be done but i digress.
Ah, I see your point about the increased centralization tradeoff. Bit more complex of an issue than I first thought, then.
Also, since you started a thread dedicated to the discussion of BTE and the scaling issue, I'll take my bellyaching there instead
