• paholg@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    The only selling point of blockchain is that it’s trustless. This becomes a less-useful property when it comes to things in the real world, as you tend to need to trust at least one party.

    For example, anything they achieved there with blockchain, they could have achieved with a simple government-run web service and a traditional database.

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      8 months ago

      Except it’s not though. Because you have to trust the majority, hence why you’ve had forks like Bitcoin Cash. Because those people wanted to trust someone else. “trustless” is just a buzzword, like everything else with Bitcoin