• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    10 months ago

    While that is an inherent component of how proof-of-work cryptos work, and utterly stupid, it’s not an inherent part of how to do blockchains.

    You can have a blockchain without consuming stupid amounts of energy.

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        10 months ago

        There aren’t a lot of distributed databases with no single owner and all writes are signed.

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          10 months ago

          Yeah, but not having an owner is actually a fucking terrible thing for a banking system, how do you not grasp this?

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            10 months ago

            I do grasp it.

            I don’t really know what situation it makes sense for. It seems like a tool for cases where nobody can agree who should own the records of something so now everyone should.

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      10 months ago

      exactly, you have others methods of proof-of-work