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Re:Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service by jnwatson on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:59PM (#27144470)
There's no purpose of private blockchains, unless your definition of blockchain is just chained signatures perhaps with a Merkle tree.

The intersection of the set of "private" and "mutually distrustful parties" is essentially 0.

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Re:Microsoft is shutting down its Azure Blockchain Service by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday May 13, 2021 @01:23PM (#27144737)
That's what I thought, but I'd like to see a proponent of private blockchains explain it with out resorting to answering a different and more general question about "the purpose of blockchain is..."
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