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I think the general idea is, why should we put trust in one entity/person, when we could distribute the "trust" to all users.

• Spearchucker 12y ago
  I think we can agree that distributed is better for the consumer than centralized (privacy and availability), but given that the Blockchain is not the only way to achieve a distributed architecture, I'm interested in why I would use the Blockchain when I can achieve similar results with an arguably simpler solution.
  • williamcotton 12y ago
    It's the only decentralized system that can guarantee availability. Data stored in Freenet, BitTorrent and the rest is ephemeral.
    • Spearchucker 12y ago
      The Blockchain is a ledger, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file share service. Difficult comparison.
  • miopa 12y ago
    What other systems exist that provide distributed trust architecture?