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> Unless there is store of value or transfer of value, you can usually get away with less headache with centralised solutions. Not even necessarily centralized
by tshaddox 4y ago
> Unless there is store of value or transfer of value, you can usually get away with less headache with centralised solutions.
Not even necessarily centralized. There's also the pre-blockchain world of decentralized systems. There's the Chaum stuff like his blind signature digital cash and mix networks (a precursor to onion routing), there's distributed hash tables that are used in (trackerless) BitTorrent, Freenet, and IPFS.
- cowtools 4y agoShoutout to GNU Taler (https://taler.net/en/index.html https://taler.net/en/index.html) a project that aims to re-implement a DigiCash-like solution.
- duskwuff 4y ago... and which has been trying to do so since (at least?) 2015 with no perceivable progress towards anything which can actually be used to make payments.