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Not that I approve this usage, but why not weed?
by man-and-laptop 8y ago
Not that I approve this usage, but why not weed?
- Moodles 8y agoExplain to me why you need a blockchain for anything to do with weed (and not bananas)?
- man-and-laptop 8y agoDecentralised marketplace, maybe? Open-source, trustless. So people can't scam you. Not saying that blockchain is a good way to do this: For instance, privacy would be a major red-flag, as well as the question of who's going to do the mining. [edit] Just found this: https://openbazaar.org/ https://openbazaar.org/ Doesn't appear to use its own blockchain. Does use cryptocurrency though, for largely privacy and anti-censorship reasons. Uses multisig capabilities in Bitcoin to enable escrow/chargeback. As to why you wouldn't do the same thing for bananas: Weed is illegal, so any business selling weed is in danger of being shut down. Something decentralised is more immune to getting shutdown. Compare Napster (centralised) to BitTorrent (decentralised).
- Moodles 8y agoAs I said: > I conjecture that blockchain only solves peer-to-[peer] digital currency You kinda just described something like Silk Road right?