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Does what happen a lot? People who might not know or trust each other needing to collaborate in updating and maintaining some kind of shared database? Yeah, i
by legutierr 5y ago
Does what happen a lot? People who might not know or trust each other needing to collaborate in updating and maintaining some kind of shared database? Yeah, it happens every day, everywhere, all the time.
In fact, it is exactly what you and I are doing right now. In our case, though, we happen to trust Y Combinator to mediate our exchange.
If our exchange were hosted on a blockchain, we wouldn't need to rely on Y Combinator to keep track of the upvotes and the downvotes, and to preserve our comments in their original form.
- karmakurtisaani 5y agoWe also rely on the mediator for moderating. Imagine the amount of spam if there was no trusted authority to moderate the database.
- nicbou 5y agoI'm fine with trusting Ycombinator with this exchange. These interactions are not important enough to warrant a costly amendment to a permanent record. Can you provide examples where trustlessness is really necessary?