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Re:Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore by Gatsky on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:04AM (#26223540)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-ironore-blockchain-id...
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Re:Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore by martin_a on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:07AM (#26223560)
> to digitise a sector that still uses millions of paper documents

So, they now use blockchain where sending documents as a PDF would have been sufficient...

I'm so proud!

edit: Read the article! That's truely their main selling point. Formerly it was done on/with paper, now it's "on the blockchain". This is another great example why we don't need blockchain.

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Re:Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore by Gatsky on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:04PM (#26232705)
What’s the point of a PDF when a fax would be sufficient?
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Re:Ethereum Isn't Fun Anymore by robjan on Monday February 22, 2021 @08:00AM (#26223990)
The problem is that the purpose of the Blockchain is to achieve distributed trustless consensus. Any time the Blockchain interacts with the physical world you need to introduce a centralised trusted entity (the oracle problem)
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