DNS is still pretty centralized though.

But that actually has a fix without having to change everything (!):
set up your search path correctly.

I should probably add:

most businesses probably have a public website.

Don't make the internal domainname the same as your website.

If you want to re-use the same domain, use:
office.domain.tld

As a business you register a domain from a TLD of your choice for US $10 or more a year.

Then you use that domain internally.

The reason start up and VC-investors put money into Bitcoin is because the blockchain is actually a novel and useful technology.

If you think PayPal is the cause of the problem, you haven't looked close enough.

The whole system is a total mess.

First of all there are, far and far to many regulations and a lot of countries has some of their own unique regulations as well.

The second problem is: SWIFT is from the 70s it's a rigid protocol that isn't going to change any time soon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It usually takes days before a transaction is confirmed. Bitcoin takes about 10 minutes, a lot altcoins take minutes.

ASIC proof could also mean: it not is profitable to create an ASIC to compete with the large factories building GPUs.

national and transnational economies ?

Really ? you are kidding right ? It's clearly not backed by gold anymore. So what's it backed by ?

There is only one thing: the amount of money people have invested in a currency.

They have 2 levers. Change the Interest rate or print more money. Both influence the economy, always in a way which has pros and cons.

The rest of the time, they can only do the same thing everyone else does: create dept.

But only up to a point.

I'm surprised Bitcoin doesn't adopt some or more of the ideas from the altcoins.

Are they to busy cleaning up their code ? Are they to busy doing small changes ? Are they to careful not to make big changes ?

Are they watching to see if what other altcoins have done really works as they grow instead of what it currently looks like to work.

For example if you want to change the proof-of-work you don't let people invest years into ASICs. Then again, changing the proof-of-work doesn't seem like a popular idea with at least 1 or more of the Bitcoin developers.

The longer they wait, the harder it is going to be to make certain changes, right ? Or maybe they think they need a good update process first ?

Email is federated (it has a standard protocol and a domainname).

All those other solutions are silos that can't talk to each other.

Facebook to Twitter ? Twitter to Whatsapp ? Nope.

I guess it depends on the type of foundation you mean.

Things like fiber have been there for many, many, many years now. I hardly see it as anything new. Or anything part of this quiet, they talk about it.

There are some big changes coming in fiber optics though. Silicon photinics.

What the hell are people talking about quiet before the storm ?

What do you mean foundations have been laid ?

Bunch of BS. Large companies are starting over, without the legacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They are obviously talking about in generalities.

That doesn't mean everyone is doing it. Or that it fits every task.

Here is some random survey from 2012 as an example:

58.9% Javascript
58.9% sql
51.1% jquery
37.6% java
37.6% c#
28.9% php
23.4% python
21.1% c++

The year after:

57.9% Javascript
53% sql
37.9% java
37.6% c#
26.2% php
22.5% python
21.7% c++
18% c
10.3% objective-c
9.8% node.js
9.1% ruby

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/...

I don't know how representative Stack Overflow is or what it means, I just know Javascript is used a lot.

If that means they are using Javascript only on the website front-end or also for other things. Who knows.

Node.js is listed as 'most exciting new technologies':
38.4% node.js
36.1% arduino /raspberry pi
28.4% angular js

So maybe it's used on the server too.

Actually, the limitation would be that it only works in 1 browser, Chrome.

How about a standard protocol around devices like Yubikey hardware tokens for integration in the browser (or use with other applications):

https://air.mozilla.org/fido-u...

Google, Microsoft are already involved, Mozilla is looking into it.