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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by ReverseCold on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:25PM (#16673237)
The blockchain can just be used to do PKI. People having cryptocurrency wallets installed means they have a private key, and when people have private keys you can do a whole lot of cool stuff.

My blockchain/IoT startup[0] primarily uses the blockchain as just that, a backend for PKI.

[0]: https://ethyl.io/

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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by davidcbc on Sunday March 25, 2018 @01:38PM (#16673299)
Why does the average Facebook user care?
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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by ReverseCold on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:07PM (#16674263)
They don't.

GP said they had a hard time understanding what the use of a blockchain in social networks would be.

I was trying to get at the point that blockchain being ubiquitous leads to people having private keys which would enable an end to end encrypted social network.

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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by detaro on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:09PM (#16674276)
Why not just give people private keys? Why attach them to a blockchain?
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Re:Towards a world without Facebook by ReverseCold on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:05AM (#16678958)
My point was that blockchain being ubiquitous leads to people already having a set of keys that they can use.

Of course you can manage keys yourself, but it's a lot harder than if the user already has it set up.

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