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I could imagine (encrypted) health records could benefit from a blockchain model for distribution and dissemination as a distributed database...maybe.
by kruhft 9y ago
I could imagine (encrypted) health records could benefit from a blockchain model for distribution and dissemination as a distributed database...maybe.
- dozzie 9y agoBlockchain is a very poor and extremely expensive database. All it's good for is timestamping documents, and it's still expensive at that compared to systems with a central authority. The difference between the two uses is that we do have decentralized and/or distributed data stores that are quite efficient, so it's very dumb to force timestamping service to work as a data store.