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Re:Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption by gauthamzz on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:27PM (#23922676)
A lot of the limited ones which exists are for high volume transactions, so it matters a lot more than we think. But the hype is sometime way too much.
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Re:Exploring Fully Homomorphic Encryption by all_blue_chucks on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:42PM (#23923379)
The entire point of proof-of-work cryptography is to make things slower, and blockchain is built on proof-of-work, so yeah, applications are limited to situations where slowness is a feature. That's very few situations.

But there is an entire world of crypto outside of proof-of-work and I'm glad people are more interested in these more useful parts of crypto now.

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