Absolutely, and that's what is happening right now. I honestly don't have a solution for this problem... other than trying to make it as least appealing to these institutions are possible.
+ the genesis block included the text "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" (Source: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block)
(author here) I agree! I was calling out Bitcoin's initial goals in the article but don't 100% align with them myself. Financial institutions came to exist for a reason and I'm really not on board with everyone "being their own bank" as I feel it'd be a step backwards from what we have today.
What I do agree with is the need for more audit-able, accountable systems so the institutions we trust are less susceptible to corruption.
Handling and manipulating data in an obfuscated web environment (Electron) is not fun. Native will undoubtedly offer better memory handling and performance.
Shame to hear this... although I guess there is less demand now with hyper-targeted invasive social ads. Working with The Deck previously, Jim was always such a pleasure to deal with and it felt a lot more personal as a network vs. Google or the big social networks. RIP.
This still doesn't explain how large scale search indexing could take place effectively... the data still needs to float upstream un-encrypted, processed and indexed.
Somehow offloading full-text indexing to the client, uploading encrypted indexes to the server and then elegantly combining those indexes across users to display a unified search would be arduous and I don't see anyone doing it.
Also, IndexedDB has been around for years and still suffers from a variety of cross-browser inconsistencies that make it a little painful to work with.
Bravo, 100% behind severing ties with YC until they break ties with bigot Peter Thiel. Bigotry != difference of opinion. It's inciting violence and hatred, which is different and very dangerous.