MPEx isn't a "web site." Unlike gox and stamp and all the other scam-exchanges, MPEx is a legitimate trading engine that also happens to have a few web front-ends.
The trading engine wasn't what I was talking about. I was referring to his Options Emporium (MPOE). If you have brilliant technology and build a product on top of it (in the case a web-enabled product - I won't use the term "web site" since it is too demeaning for you), shouldn't you at least try to put in minimal effort to make it usable by regular people?
MPEx is exactly as "usable" as it needs to be. There is no way to make it easier to use without making it significantly less secure. I'm all for
teaching the illiterate how to read, but they should never be catered to in their native state; that is, the lowest common denominator should not be used as the standard.
And there is most certainly an affected market when you manipulate block sizes! You don't see it yet because it isn't an issue yet, but there will be a market for mining fees. This is a much bigger threat to Bitcoin than the prospect of a bunch of poor nobodies having to actually pay for the seeming miraculous service of sending any amount of wealth anywhere in the world in an hour. You should better worry about the people who literally secure the network. Do you think they will do this work for free? They will not keep mining blocks when the block reward is no longer significant, and users will not make up the difference out of the kindness of their hearts. Supply and demand drive price. There is a finite supply of transaction space, and that is why users will include a fee.
Throttling the motion of money by making it expensive to move smells authoritarian/elitist to me. Better 10,000 tx at 5c per, than having to persuade 100 people to spend $5 on it. Fungibility, liquidity and velocity are all related. Something fucking expensive, but fucking hard to move is not going to find a buyer quickly.
I don't care what it "smells like." Bitcoin mining is driven by the block reward; the transaction fee is trivial. You know what else is elitist? Private jets! Wouldn't it be nice if everybody in the world had access to their own private jet? Don't mind how much this would cost, or that it's obviously unsustainable. That's what gavincoin promises to do: the impossible. That is why sane people oppose him.
Nice things cost money, and socialism will never work.
Throttling the motion of money by making it expensive to move smells authoritarian/elitist to me.
I don't know about authoritarian, but elitists, I believe that's exactly what they are. I don't even think they would object to being called just that. Did you read
Trilema? Not making any judgment here, but I believe it needs to be pointed out to understand their point of view.
Or maybe I just belong to
idiots Nope, we wouldn't.
Elitism is very much a fact of life, in any and all cases where your life works, and your experiences are satisfactory or enjoyable; it's as much a requisite of happy living as clean air. For instance: you meet a girl. Do you take her to a soup kitchen? No, you do not. You take her to Pomodoro's. Why? Oh, because you wish to project this air of elitism about you, like saying "Honey, as long as you're hanging on my arm, no doors in this city are closed to you" ? Well done you elitist democrat you.