Re:Ask HN: What are real-life useful use-cases for blockchai...
by smt88 on Saturday October 24, 2020 @07:55PM
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I'm curious what you mean by "blockchain" here.
A lot of people talk about the benefits of blockchain and then describe a cryptographically-secured, append-only database (something like Amazon's QLDB[1], which does not have distributed trust or ownership).
If you're not actually using a blockchain, then disregard.
If you are using a blockchain, how does it add trust? Isn't your company, which controls the I/O for the system, still the central authority?
A lot of people talk about the benefits of blockchain and then describe a cryptographically-secured, append-only database (something like Amazon's QLDB[1], which does not have distributed trust or ownership).
If you're not actually using a blockchain, then disregard.
If you are using a blockchain, how does it add trust? Isn't your company, which controls the I/O for the system, still the central authority?
1. https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/features/