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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by rblatz on Thursday September 24, 2020 @11:52AM (#24579823)
Why would you put blockchain in this?
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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by damnyou on Thursday September 24, 2020 @12:01PM (#24579952)
For micropayments per stream, presumably.
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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by rmah on Thursday September 24, 2020 @03:32PM (#24582576)
Blockchain is not suitable for micropayments. The computing resource requirements are many orders of magnitude too high.
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Re:Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for... by damnyou on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:40PM (#24583340)
A proof of work blockchain isn't suitable, but proof of work is one of many ways to reach distributed consensus.
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