• Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Yeah Blockchain is a massive warning flag.

    There are only two real use cases for Blockchain

    1. Financial speculation (very risky one, somewhat like trying to time a pyramid scheme)
    2. Various types of fraud
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      5 months ago

      No, there’s one use for Blockchain. An immutable public ledger with no trusted authority

      That’s useful for a lot of things - just not everything (and it has been shoved plenty of places it doesn’t belong)

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      AKA

      1. Investment (very profitable if you stick to the large market caps and avoid obvious trash like Odysee/NFTs/shitcoins)
      2. Decentralized finance
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      1. validating financial transactions (in regular markets/banks/etc),
      2. ensuring data integrity (i.e. tamper-proofing) in databases,
      3. spotting people who talk out of their ass