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Mapping the blockchain project ecosystem
- DyslexicAtheist 9y agoA blockchain use-case is IMO only safe if everyone is OK with the data being stored there being readable by everyone. because sooner or later it will be. I thought about doing a "blockchain security risks" article yesterday and then realized everything that there is to say has already been said :) for example if you wonder if blockchain will "solve healthcare" check[0]. 9/10 times the blockchain is NOT the right tool for the job, but somebody who has blockchain advocate in their job title probably won't tell you that one of the bigger issues is post-quantum crypto. Despite the hype it takes years for functions to be considered safe. But on the other hand it will take even longer if nobody uses/tries these technologies in real life. Efforts are under way to solve the PQC problem [1][2]. Adoption will take ages. A typical example why things are not easy is IOTA. They are now back-peddling after rolling their own crypto called "Curl" trying to mitigate the fall-out from bad press[3]. And for those skeptical about "blockchain-on-everything-hype", here a recent RSA talk[4] on common attack vectors against BC and why it will not solve security as vendors have us believe. [0] https://blog.andreacoravos.com/myth-busting-can-a-blockchain-save-healthcare-d398cdebf0c1 https://blog.andreacoravos.com/myth-busting-can-a-blockchain... [1] https://openquantumsafe.org/ https://openquantumsafe.org/ [2] https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography [3] https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-iota-9a6a9ddc4367 https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io... [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gL6DsR6vGg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gL6DsR6vGg