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Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by snowwrestler on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:55PM (#19229477)
If we can imagine "ripping out" the middlemen and replacing them with blockchain, then we can also imagine ripping out the middlemen and replacing them with any other centralized ledger.
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Re:You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why The... by will_brown on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:11PM (#19229616)
Umm...can we? If you rip out the existing middlemen where does the “centralized ledger” come from but another middle man.
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