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50+ Real-World Blockchain Use Cases

12 points by halfbrown 8y ago

BreakfastB0b 8y ago
50+ Real-World Blockchain Use Cases that all involve some kind of trusted party thus invalidating the whole point of using a blockchain in the first place. Call me when you have a solution to the Trustless Oracle Problem. Until then just use a fucking database.
- deltateam 8y ago
  these offer ala carte solutions for bootstrapping a network and aligning economic incentives you don't need a blockchain or other distributed ledger technology to do it, yet the community built around those DLT projects are much more supportive and more economically aligned and are cheaply acquired giving advantages over both - private equity fundraising - kickstarter style consumer-product fundraising it doesn't matter if thats an agreeable stance, that is the reality right now. If you don't like it, then a series of tools have to be made to compete, good luck bootstrapping your community around that goal.
- dick_sucker2 8y ago
  There is the ChainLink project that aims to solve the problem of centralized Oracles.
startupdiscuss 8y ago
Some of these seem to weaken the case for blockchain for two reasons: 1. They ultimately require some kind of real world authority. For instance a land registry requires the authority to accept the transaction and then enforce it. 2. They're just using crypto It would be interesting to see which 3-5 of these applications people think genuinely require the block chain and serve a need.
- dick_sucker2 8y ago
  That's the extreme end of things. It's like saying that no application can ever be decentralized because developers are involved. If you're looking for a perfect system then blockchain doesn't make sense. But in that case the internet doesn't make sense either and we should all go back to pen and paper.
  - dang 8y ago
    Sorry, but you can't have an account called dick_sucker2 on HN. That amounts to trolling the site with everything you post. I've banned the account but you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with a better username and we can rename it for you and unban it.
    - dick_sucker2 8y ago
      Why do you think I'm trolling? And what am I trolling?
    - dick_sucker2 8y ago
      Where are the guidelines for this? I only expect snark from you though. It's sad.
egwynn 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292797
ummjackson 8y ago
The guy who created this is the CEO of "essentia.one", who are listed 4 times on the infographic. Blatant self-promotion. Cringe. https://twitter.com/ZagoMatteoGian/status/1009426614344658945 https://twitter.com/ZagoMatteoGian/status/100942661434465894...

12 points by halfbrown 8y ago

50+ Real-World Blockchain Use Cases that all involve some kind of trusted party thus invalidating the whole point of using a blockchain in the first place. Call me when you have a solution to the Trustless Oracle Problem. Until then just use a fucking database.

deltateam 8y ago
these offer ala carte solutions for bootstrapping a network and aligning economic incentives you don't need a blockchain or other distributed ledger technology to do it, yet the community built around those DLT projects are much more supportive and more economically aligned and are cheaply acquired giving advantages over both - private equity fundraising - kickstarter style consumer-product fundraising it doesn't matter if thats an agreeable stance, that is the reality right now. If you don't like it, then a series of tools have to be made to compete, good luck bootstrapping your community around that goal.
dick_sucker2 8y ago
There is the ChainLink project that aims to solve the problem of centralized Oracles.

startupdiscuss 8y ago

Some of these seem to weaken the case for blockchain for two reasons: 1. They ultimately require some kind of real world authority. For instance a land registry requires the authority to accept the transaction and then enforce it. 2. They're just using crypto It would be interesting to see which 3-5 of these applications people think genuinely require the block chain and serve a need.

dick_sucker2 8y ago
That's the extreme end of things. It's like saying that no application can ever be decentralized because developers are involved. If you're looking for a perfect system then blockchain doesn't make sense. But in that case the internet doesn't make sense either and we should all go back to pen and paper.
- dang 8y ago
  Sorry, but you can't have an account called dick_sucker2 on HN. That amounts to trolling the site with everything you post. I've banned the account but you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with a better username and we can rename it for you and unban it.
  - dick_sucker2 8y ago
    Why do you think I'm trolling? And what am I trolling?
  - dick_sucker2 8y ago
    Where are the guidelines for this? I only expect snark from you though. It's sad.

egwynn 8y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292797

ummjackson 8y ago

The guy who created this is the CEO of "essentia.one", who are listed 4 times on the infographic. Blatant self-promotion. Cringe. https://twitter.com/ZagoMatteoGian/status/1009426614344658945 https://twitter.com/ZagoMatteoGian/status/100942661434465894...