Re:Ask HN: What does a blockchain give you that a database d...
by sova on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:49PM
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Today I participated in voting (put your energy in the system!) in local elections and I must say, voting is something that would benefit immensely from blockchain ideas. Cryptographically secured ballots that are verifiable but also don't expose individual's voting preferences, it's very possible! Very intriguing.
Or what about recording tax documents, or political promises, storing them on an immutable chain that’s unhackable (to the point that once it’s on chain the only way to modify it is to hack every copy on every node)
These are very large scale problems, and there’s lots of uses where databases will do just fine, but I see the key benefits as decentralised trust