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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Blockchain (simplified) is a giant excel spreadsheet that you can never edit, only add to. I struggle to think of any applications that is a benefit for, and even then append only databases would already do it better.

  One of the benefits is supposed to be decentralization, but people tout that as a benefit for things like house deeds, or identification, or whatever. Imagine how massive an append only excel file of every house with every owner change etc etc included in it would be. Then we once again only have the people who can afford to store that much data storing it, and we are back to where we are now.

  It doesn't really solve any problems, it just is a worse version of what already exists.