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Comment · 1 year ago
He's the reason I asked :)
Comment · 3 years ago
I've found a few articles and some discussion about this on social media from 2021, but not much since then.

Any idea whether that project in Ethiopia is still alive?

Comment · 3 years ago
It sounds like "private blockchain" means very few copies of the blockchain, or even just one?

If it does, why was it decided to use a blockchain rather than a traditional database?

Comment · 3 years ago
How?
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the links to examples.

These voting and real estate securitisation projects look to be quite small-scale, but they also seem to be real-world and not prototypes, so they are what I asked for :)

Comment · 3 years ago
Okay, that's cute :)
Comment · 3 years ago
I can see that IPFS is decentralised/P2P, but I don't see how a blockchain is part of it.

Am I missing something?

Comment · 3 years ago
I hadn't heard of LBRY before.

A quick look at it has me thinking that it's a content distribution platform, and the blockchain element is that it has its own token that can be used to pay content creators. Does that sound right?

Comment · 3 years ago
I've always used Google Camera on GOS for this reason.

It's the one Google app I use. I believe I have it sandboxed effectively, although I'll admit that I'm not knowledgeable enough to really confirm that.

Installing Google Camera to be able to have a good camera was a compromise I was prepared to make, and three years later I'm still happy with that compromise, although it might or might not be one that others would accept on their own devices.

@sneak, was there anything other than the camera about GOS that you considered a shortcoming?

Comment · 3 years ago
Good call. I've been using GrapheneOS for the last three years, and I recommend it highly.
Comment · 3 years ago
Okay, NFTs, fair enough :)

They often run off the Ethereum ledger, am I right?

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