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A comment on Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble. Parent comment

Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by duskwuff on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:48AM (#16272230)
But what value does "blockchain" add here? What is so special about photo watermarking that makes a traditional database unsuitable to the purpose?

If anything, the transaction rate limits of current blockchain technology seem like they'd be hugely limiting for this application...

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Re:Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble by syntaticSugar on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @06:23AM (#16273078)
I guess you could say that the fact it's using a block chain, any form of processing the transfer of ip/rights of the hash desired, can be out sourced. Bitpay, meta mask,. Etc

Side note I see no reason to use pow for this application, pos seams like a more appropriate security tradeoff

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