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Re:Blockchain at CMU and Beyond [video] by Moodles on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:30PM (#18841755)
Explain to me why you need a blockchain for anything to do with weed (and not bananas)?
Re:Blockchain at CMU and Beyond [video] by man-and-laptop on Sunday January 06, 2019 @07:35PM (#18841783)
Decentralised marketplace, maybe? Open-source, trustless. So people can't scam you. Not saying that blockchain is a good way to do this: For instance, privacy would be a major red-flag, as well as the question of who's going to do the mining.

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Just found this: https://openbazaar.org/ Doesn't appear to use its own blockchain. Does use cryptocurrency though, for largely privacy and anti-censorship reasons. Uses multisig capabilities in Bitcoin to enable escrow/chargeback.

As to why you wouldn't do the same thing for bananas: Weed is illegal, so any business selling weed is in danger of being shut down. Something decentralised is more immune to getting shutdown. Compare Napster (centralised) to BitTorrent (decentralised).

Re:Blockchain at CMU and Beyond [video] by Moodles on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:41PM (#18842591)
As I said:

> I conjecture that blockchain only solves peer-to-[peer] digital currency

You kinda just described something like Silk Road right?