On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Thomas Zander via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Saturday 8. August 2015 12.54.36 Adam Back wrote: >> On 8 August 2015 at 09:54, Thomas Zander <tho...@thomaszander.se> wrote: >> > I didn't say off-chain, and gave an example of on-chain usecase with >> > trusted middleman. >> That's basically the definition of off-chain. When we say MtGox or >> coinbase etc are off-chain transactions, that is because a middle man >> has the private keys to the coins and gave you an IOU of some kind. > > I'm so sorry to have to correct you again, and please don't feel bad about > misreading my post twice. > > Sending something to another Bitcoin on-chain user is really on-chain. Please > believe me when I say that I actually understand my own example.
Adam, I think he means a multisig escrow transaction where the escrow is trusted by both parties, and other examples like that. But I don't see how that is relevant, allowing trust to be involved in different ways is a feature, but it's optional. I think the point "you don't need to trust anyone to use Bitcoin" remains. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
