• fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    What are you on about? Accelerating global warming so that I can own a reference to a hyperlink to a JPG of a monkey wearing a top hat is absolutely a fantastic use case for blockchain!

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    11 months ago

    To be fair, there are plans for a (international) bank exchange system based on Blockchain. Right now it’s either things like “Swift”, trust, or physically shipping gold.

    Blockchain allows for a system where they just have to trust the system, as a whole, and not individual banks, or the governments above them.

    This is the only useful use for block chain I’ve seen, that isn’t better served in another way.

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        11 months ago

        There’s generally significant trust between national level banks. So long as they have some sort of trust in the countries involved, it can’t be intercepted by a 3rd country.

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      11 months ago

      So one clear use case is to have a plan to have a use case? Totally legit

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    11 months ago

    There’s plenty of uses for blockchains, but it’s almost all about document validation and contract non-repudiation (boring bureaucratic things), not so much for commodities (“currency”) and copyright enforcement (NFTs).

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    11 months ago

    Blockchain DNS seems like a good idea some days, but other days the entirety of the internet seems like a huge mistake.

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    11 months ago

    There are uses for blockchain for internal company ledgers on a small scale. its just the standard style with crypto that is only useful for global warming.

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      11 months ago

      Append only databases are pretty common thing , thats true. Never heard of internal enterprise blockchains though

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        11 months ago

        They certainly exists and have their place but yeah not the life changing technology the cryptobros like to push it as

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    11 months ago

    There are uses for ‘blockchain’ based systems, for instance git uses what is effectively a blockchain to store commits. The big difference is, rather than using proof-of-work or proof-of-funds to maintain consistently, if you break the upstream repository ‘Mad’ Dave over there, who is trying to push his changes before the weekend will beat you with an Ethernet cable until you regret your ways.

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    11 months ago

    Why would you want blockchain for making illegal purchases? Crypto makes sense as a non fiat currency. But blockchain is an non alterable record.