I have found the whitepapers and roadmaps to be a waste of time to read because things never go as planned and things get left out that get taken care of here and there that were not known...Let alone slack and the private conversations behind closed doors that nobody else in the community has any say in , polls only get us so far. How are we " Gridcoin " decentralized when yet we have hard coded seed nodes? I refer you to look at the source code and check out /src/net.cpp around lines 113-117 iirc and since I pointed out the security issues that arose there and barton26 was nice enough to update and change the seed nodes to something less favoring 1 single persons nodes ( and we wonder why there are forking issues??? ) I have learned after sharing those lines of code and conversing on freenode #gridcoin that unfortunately its necessary to get things working and to assure connectivity for the network to spider out amongst the full nodes you " can " add to your config file and you could have no nodes in the config and still have a working wallet client. Apparently I guess you could call it a failsafe for people whom do not know how to edit a config and put in their own entries but I would not call it decentralized when there are hard coded node DNS entries the block-chain client is told to connect to.I would call it as decentralized as possible , kinda how in America we are not free but we are as free as we can be without total anarchy.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
Thanks @jamezz, I think your comparaison between Gridcoin and America very relevant and that establishes a correspondance between whitepaper and Constitution. No matter how is the situation today, the main point is that everyone aggrees to sign it for what it means. It is thus important for Gridcoin to clearly expose its philosophy because it represents a respectable power (legislative through vote, executive through currency, social, ...) and a responsible behaviour is expected from any respectable power.