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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by notyourday on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @07:20AM (#19562442)
How does a distributed public ledger help with it?
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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by mightybyte on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:15PM (#19569042)
It provides more protection against deletion. But also note that my comment was explicitly not limited to distributed public ledgers.
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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing... by notyourday on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:41AM (#19570989)
The only difference between a block chain and the database is that block chain is public so a rando can validate that nothing has been deleted.
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