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Right, give me even one practical use for blockchain, beyond Dunning-Krugerrand.

• rglullis 4y ago
  Take any system where we depend on some central authority (an institution, a state, a quasi-monopolistic company) that can deny you access to their services, and try to come up with an alternative system that could work for them. If you don't need any of that and you can leave in a society that warrants you and your neighbors fair treatment, great. But consider yourself priviledged. The majority of people are not just as lucky as you and have to deal with corrupt or dysfunctional institutions, authoritarian states that free exchange of work and goods, companies and banks that take arbitrary decisions and leave merchants without access to their funds, etc. Before you come with the tired-and-stupid argument of "blockchain will never replace any of these things": yes, we know. This is not meant to be some type of revolution. No one really wants to live in a decentralized utopia, at least none of the sane ones. We just want to have an alternative for the time and places where shit is hitting the fan.