I only skipped through it but clearly the writer has very limited experience on many subjects around P2P... If that is the quality of developers Sys is hiring good luck.
EDIT : Much of the info re: Shadow and its ShadowMarket is incorrect.
EDIT2: Blockchain is NOT the always the answer!
Interesting... Please elaborate
Firstly, this is my last post on this thread; I have no interest in posting in threads of other cryptocurrencies. I did so because the article was bought to my attention and was hosted on the syscoin website. You are more than welcome to open a new thread somewhere appropriate.
Now that is out of the way, the article in question is 1. full of mistakes and 2. based on assumptions with little knowledge (and we all know what they say, "assumptions are the mother of all ....")
I am going to list a few as I really do not have the time to waste on such a poorly written article.
... from ShadowMarket point of view:
"P2P marketplace built on top of BitMessage. Similar to OpenBazaar but with anonymity in mind" - False
"Must be online to serve your store" - False
"Must use built in software and ui, cannot use plugins or extend to arbitrary front-ends" - False
"Short window of time before you must update your listing to ensure it stays up" - False
"Offers only alive while node is up unless you assign trust via 24/7 nodes used to host auctions or offers while seller is not online, like a backup but costs a fee." - False
"Alot of settings and complexity in setting up, using and maintaining." - False
"ShadowCoin’s marketplace plans to offer anonymous transactions leveraging Darkcoin’s (now DASH) darksend feature" - False, this is too funny. Shadow is one of probably 2 or 3 (third is questionable) cryptocurrencies to have cryptographically secured anonymous transactions ... If the writer had the ability to review the source code he would understand this.
"P2P networks which are not fully anonymized can fall victim to DDOS attacks (the classic TCP SYN ACK network flood attack) blah blah blah" - Again false, he/she fails to understand that bitcoin protocol runs on a P2P network so these vectors are valid for it also.
That was not even half way down the article... You get the point..
Anyways pretty much everything writen about Shadow is wrong in his article and much of the other stuff is just fluff.