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I think you’re basically saying that there are still no good known use cases for blockchain (/s but only a little)
by schneems 3y ago
I think you’re basically saying that there are still no good known use cases for blockchain (/s but only a little)
- squarefoot 3y agoI know of at least one: making electric heaters that actually contain obsolete mining hardware instead of heating elements. Obsolete to keep costs down and to have an excuse when someone complains "hey, at least we're recycling hardware!" (/s also only a little)
- throw0101a 3y agoNIST has a good blockchain explainer: * https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final Figure 6 is a good flowchart on helping a person decide whether it's a good solution for particular use cases. See "Distributed ledger need: blockchain, block matrix, or none?" at the bottom of: * https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/enhanced-distributed-ledger-technology https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/enhanced-distributed-ledger-t...
- mananaysiempre 3y agoGiven the relative clunkiness of commercial timestamping services, https://opentimestamps.org/ https://opentimestamps.org/ seems fairly useful to me.