Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Internet: Single Sign-On

Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by _hyn3 on Friday June 11, 2021 @04:21PM (#27477975)

Could you explain this a bit more; how does the logic/argument that the problems an immutable blockchain present in this SSO scenario (namely, that it's basically unfixable as a total system) follow that we would never drive cars etc if we continued in that line of thinking?

Cars/planes/rockets seem to be fixable most of the time, or at least we would prefer them to be. (The last one is probably the least-easily fixable, and that is generally considered to be a negative attribute -- something to be mitigated, not celebrated -- and requires careful and even over-engineering because it's so hard/risky to fix a rocket in space.)

Or, perhaps I am completely misunderstanding your point?

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Re:Ethereum community has solved a major problem of the Inte... by bl557 on Friday June 11, 2021 @05:40PM (#27478840)

The post i was responding to made the point - "do we want to attach extremely important things to a system that is by design irreversible?

Human life is both extremely important, and the loss of it is irreversible, at least for now :). People generally seem to be willing to take risks for the sake of convenience.

But in the end I believe we should be able to have our cake and eat it too - that is benefit from blockchain tech with safeguards preventing such scenarios

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