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Re:Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty by arcticbull on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:23AM (#18227082)
Like what? Everyone seems to hand-wave this, but nobody in the full decade long history of bitcoin and blockchain has come up with a single good use case that isn't better solved by MySQL.
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Re:Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty by lalaland1125 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:52AM (#18227486)
Illegal gambling and illegal transactions tend to be good Bitcoin usecases that are trickier to solve with MySQL due to trust issues. Now, you may not be particularly enamored with illegal activity, but it is the one use case where Bitcoin really excels.
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Re:Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty by arcticbull on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:09AM (#18229992)
That’s a good use case but it doesn’t feel like a good flagship product to spur mass adoption haha
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Re:Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty by jsutton on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:52PM (#18231503)
MySQL doesn't guarantee message integrity, so anything involving shared data among separate entities that could be attractive for manipulation would be better solved with blockchain tech than MySQL.
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