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Comment by paulsutter

The sole purpose of blockchain is to prevent double spending without a trusted party

Other proposed applications are mostly dumb / misguided, like immutable storage, social network posts, etc, these can be done with hashing or digital signatures alone

If you have a better way to avoid double spending than blockchain folks woukd get very excited. Traditional database can’t do that (requires a trusted party)

parent paulsutter 4 years ago

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