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What's the blockchain for? It serves no purpose here.

• Melting_Harps 7y ago
  > What's the blockchain for? It serves no purpose here. Non-trust based verification/consensus requires that many parties, ideally opposing ones, have the same data/ledger to validate the information desired: in this case, real-time acquisition of passenger weight. You could argue SQL does the same thing, and you're probably right at least on paper, but it cannot be independently validated as a blockchain can. The idea being, if all have a copy of the information then it isn't subject to custodial manipulation, and corruption. I see it as having the same features that open-source software provides: in that it allows people to look through the source code to ensure it doesn't contain some malware or some bug in the software and can do so independently from the owner/company of said software.