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Re:Building for the Blockchain by jhwang5 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:08PM (#16109483)
Sure, but Lituania also didn't need to use the Blockchain for this use case.
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Re:Building for the Blockchain by posterboy on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:46PM (#16110890)
> Lituania

You didn't even read properly - we were talking Estonia. At the scale of a local health care system the blockchain is perhaps really nothing more than a fancy database, if at that scale it will stay energy efficient for a long while.

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Re:Building for the Blockchain by jhwang5 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:55PM (#16110962)
If you read correctly, I was not taking any exception to energy efficiency aspect of using Blockchain, either.
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