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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by mvzvm on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:18PM (#27258209)
In his own example, it went from patent to useful in a few months. Blockchain has not gone from idea to useful at all yet.
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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by tummybug on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:37PM (#27258376)
That is a really hard to achieve definition of useful.
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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by Asraelite on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:52PM (#27258942)
Very very few people were using cars at that time.

If you apply that same low threshold of usefulness to blockchain then it became useful just as fast, if not faster.

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