Nick Szabo  🔑

Yep, it is difficult. BTCPay one click is hosted on Azure because I have not found a way to make one click in any other hosts :/ (though if you have tech skills you can trivially do) Good thing though is that migration is easy, and the private keys are not on the server.

This may be a dumb question & I'm sure you're busy on 1000 more important things, but would it be difficult to integrate BTCPay w this: https://paybycoin.intuit.com/  Right now PayByCoin integrates to BitPay & Coinbase. Useful for small businesses that accept BTC for service invoices.

The more widely trusted a third party is, the more it attracts very motivated attention from political activists and politicians trying to control its content.

This was my problem with all the “The future is in the cloud!” talk a few years ago. It went into my ears as “The future is trusting a third party to host your infrastructure!”

This is problematic, but probably less than Twitter which own your audience. If you own your domain name you can always migrate with nothing more than downtime. But still scary...

Raspberry. Pi.

We’re looking into @BtcpayServer but don’t want to use azure for deployment.

@MADinMelbourne A parallel conversation addressing the issues I feel apply to the hosted node concept as discussed in the video you linked me. I feel for business who wish to use crypto currency the same way as PayPal / credit cards, hosted nodes are great. However... p1/3

For individuals who want decentralisation, it means nothing. From vid "This comes back to the argument about centralisation where the the goal is not decentralisation, but being censorship resistant. And as long as we have censorship resistance, we are decentralised enough'. p2/

But we are in a very new world, and I don't believe anyone truly knows where the line in the sand lies between decentralised enough and not quite enough. So why not go for the most decentralised model possible and always be on the safe side. p3/3