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Re:Nobel Prize-winning economist joins blockchain startup to... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 02, 2018 @03:02PM (#17674443)
> it still adds value over a purely legal approach as at least ownership and transfer of it is transparent

It adds dubious value over a shared database.

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Re:Nobel Prize-winning economist joins blockchain startup to... by marmadukester39 on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:36AM (#17678704)
But someone always controls that shared database. Distributed ledgers continue functioning regardless of private or governmental change and are resistant to rent seeking behavior making them unsustainably expensive or ungainly.
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