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A lot of places use blockchain as some kind of "all you have is a hammer" solution to hashing. Which... I mean in some (rare) cases is a good thing but is usua
by abritinthebay 9y ago
A lot of places use blockchain as some kind of "all you have is a hammer" solution to hashing.
Which... I mean in some (rare) cases is a good thing but is usually - as far as I can see - just a way to get VC money or buzz by saying "we use crypto".
- geofft 9y agoRight, and it's also usually significantly more inefficient than just using normal cryptography, so it seems like it's a long-term negative. For lbry itself it looks like they're using coins for actual payments to creators, which seems like it's a worthwhile project (and definitely has the double-spend problem), but it's not clear to me that it needs to be connected with the content distribution problem.