Let's talk about some misconceptions.
What we really want is a decentralized infrastructure with bitcoin as the payment rails. This has been consistently thwarted by states and governments going on their censorship warpath. Bitcoin is decentralized but the internet is very very centralized, the finance backrails to the economy are hyper centralized.
The current finance and internet structure are literally just warehouses full of computers owned by oligarchs with realt time monitoring by intelligence agencies. Thats effectively what China's Great Fire wall is, and ours are just a few multinational corporations doing the same. The Cloud is just a billionaires warehouse.
There's a misconception that blockchains and blockchain technology must be a financial ledger, but this is not actually what blockchains are. Blockchains are simply indexed databases that are immutable. There's no reason to make this constant conflation, and thus no reason, no good reason to not use layer 2 bitcoin as the payment rails to interact with non-financial blockchains.
For the hardcore bitcoiner, there's a misunderstanding about non-financial blockchains. There are many reasons for censorship resistent blockchains that contain things such as user meta data, identity, purchase history, shipment, freight, geolocation, virtual proxy networks, servers, storage, DNS, loan agreements, company balance sheets, search history, mortgages, refinancing, interest and savings. You get the idea.
The reason non-financial blockchains are needed, is to protect those aformentioned things from state level attacks. Period. You don't need to use other money for payment rails, but you need this technology or you remain vulnerable to constant state coercion from things like China's Great Fire Wall or our Nsa dragnets.
Now granted, integrating RSK smart contracts and lightning bitcoin correctly with non-financial blockchains and oracles that behave as virtual machines will be some of the most daunting cryptographic work undertaken, but it must be done. But the main hangup with the Bitcoin community has been the idea that the bitcoin blockchain would be the sole basis of the smart contracts. This simply isn't the logical engineering choice. The logical choice is to integrate lightning networks and actual bitcoin RSK smart contracts --with seperate non-financial blockchains and oracles that are able to give us the distributed DNS, distributed domain, distributed server power, distributed virtual machine, distributed front ends/websites/browsers/vpns/storage.
You don't want the state or some loser billionaire corporation like facebook to take your server, your website, your data, your domain, your loan agreement, your computation power to your smart contracts down, You don't want your infrastructure to be on AWS..so build the alternative.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/qacrok/alternative_to_censored_infrastructure/
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