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Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by arisAlexis on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:59PM (#19228039)
your vision is extremely short-sighted bordering resistance to change.

With Ethereum you can build systems that are intra-national and connect for example all the real-estate records globally which cannot be done with a MySQL system. There are hundreds other examples

Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by dmitriid on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:14PM (#19229172)
Mythical examples, of course.

There’s no system built in Ethereum that provides what you cite as an example.

And all of the world’s real edtate records would probably easily fit into a non-optimized MySQL database (I’m not even talking about more powerful databases). Because there are at most a few hundred million such records. Even if there’s a billion, it’s nothing for a modern database (and would cripple any blockchain solution).

Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by arisAlexis on Saturday February 23, 2019 @03:13AM (#19232317)
of course there is not. and there was no HN when the internet started. Scalability is not the issue, verifiable secure immutable records are where no admin from a third world participating country can alter records as an example. If you forget the bias for a bit you may start to love the possibilities.
Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by dmitriid on Saturday February 23, 2019 @01:55PM (#19234875)
> of course there is not

And yet you bring it up as an example of how well Ethereum might work. And claim “there are hundreds of other examples”.

So what you claimed is false, and there are no other examples. And the avility of Ethereum to provide what you claim is yet to be proven (it was nearly crippled by a friggin kitties game which could fit in its entirety on a low-powered laptop eas it not for Ethereum/blockchain).

> If you forget bias

There’s no bias in calling out a lie

Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by arisAlexis on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:43PM (#19259055)
there is nothing in the world that there are no examples of what are you talking about. examples are theorhetical.