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Re:Germany's Energy Giant Launches Ethereum-Based Electric C... by sanswork on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:02AM (#14230230)
Could you give me a practical example of how you would use one to solve this problem that couldn't be just as easily solved without one?
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Re:Germany's Energy Giant Launches Ethereum-Based Electric C... by davidgerard on Sunday April 30, 2017 @07:43AM (#14231090)
There are none. The only practical example where a blockchain does things a centralised database doesn't is a Bitcoin-style cryptocurrency.

(Even then, proof-of-work mining naturally recentralises, as we see with Bitcoin. Ethereum claims to be planning to move to proof-of-stake, but there's no working implementation or date for this.)

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