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> The sole purpose of blockchain is to prevent double spending without a trusted party NIST's Blockchain Technology Overview is really good explainer: * https

> The sole purpose of blockchain is to prevent double spending without a trusted party NIST's Blockchain Technology Overview is really good explainer: * https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final See especially Figure 6 ("p. 42", 53 of the PDF), which is a flow chart to help you decide on whether blockchain matches one's use case. Extracted: * https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed

geoduck14 5y ago
I love it: Do you need <something you almost certainly don't need>? No -> consider DATABASE
- nsotelo 5y ago
  Future historians will laugh and cry knowing we invested trillions and boiled the oceans for the sake of a useless append-only log.
  - smitty1e 5y ago
    It was shiny.