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Re:There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology by baby on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:23PM (#19098763)
I think it's a big but easy mistake to make. There is a lot of noise and scams do represent a huge majority of the market right now.

But if you look underneath, you will see that the academic community has been at work and a lot of research about byzantine agreements is coming out. It's quite the exciting field actually if you can segregate the noise from the actual good stuff.

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Re:There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology by legionof7 on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:42PM (#19098980)
Completely agree with this. I was also getting slightly disillusioned with the ecosystem until I attended Grincon and met a bunch of people who were actually interested in building, researching, and exploring new tech.
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Re:There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology by baby on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @05:54PM (#19100978)
Grin seems interesting, they gave a talk at Real World Crypto last year. I'm wondering why they think proof-of-work is the way forward though, I'm not sure I would agree with proof-of-work nowadays.
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