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Re:Google Cloud Launches Blockchain Toolkit for App Developers by hanniabu on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:28PM (#17596893)
It can be used anywhere there's a middleman/ intermediary or where trust is required.
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Re:Google Cloud Launches Blockchain Toolkit for App Developers by JustFinishedBSG on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:25AM (#17599981)
> where trust is required.

Blockchains don't solve the trust problem at all. Except if none of the trust problems you have interact somehow with the material world

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Re:Google Cloud Launches Blockchain Toolkit for App Developers by gibsons77 on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:50AM (#17600969)
That's the only thing blockchains solve is the decentralization of trust. Oracles provide a bridge, and it is possible to make trusted decentralized oracles.
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Re:Google Cloud Launches Blockchain Toolkit for App Developers by dev_dull on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:09AM (#17598250)
There are plenty of solutions to middlemen. Usually they exist not because of technical limitations but because of other reasons (see car dealerships).
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Re:Google Cloud Launches Blockchain Toolkit for App Developers by jonny_eh on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @12:11AM (#17598061)
I guess I'm just not creative enough to think of what that might be, if not money.
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