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Re:Blockchain at Berkeley by throwaway5752 on Saturday June 24, 2017 @11:05AM (#14625817)
Well, that is your opinion. I personally think that all public cryptocurrencies are eventually worth precisely zero because of the of the nature of probabilistic data loss due to hardware failure or otherwise, and the only thing holding them up is the honeymoon phase of the mining gold rushes. Blockchain (and associated distributed consensus systems) is interesting, though, for no-trust distributed workflows.
Re:Blockchain at Berkeley by x30u9340 on Monday June 26, 2017 @09:56PM (#14642002)
The whole "cryptocurrencies are lame, but blockchain is worthwhile" argument is so dumb. Any blockchain could be used as cryptocurrency or a distributed consensus system