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A comment on Ask HN: How aware are you about building decentralised software on blockchain?.

Re:Ask HN: How aware are you about building decentralised so... by rawtxapp on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:28PM (#27750708)
Like every engineering project, it boils down to pros and cons, it doesn't make sense to shoehorn blockchain into everything.

Do you need a decentralized, trustless, transparent and uncensorable system with adversarial participants and you can boil down your logic to a bunch of if/else conditions and some for-loops? Then blockchain probably makes sense and finance is the best use case so far.

But decentralization comes at a great cost, both in efficiency and actual costs. So do I want to train a ML model in a decentralized way? Probably not. Do I want to put my game on the blockchain where I relinquish any control? Probably not.

The hype means that people are trying to put blockchain into everything which in turn turns off a bunch of people because it doesn't make sense.

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Re:Ask HN: How aware are you about building decentralised so... by sprafa on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:22PM (#27751568)
There are tons of things blockchain doesn't make any sense. However dApps are real and there are real-world use cases being used right now by millions of users. HN seems to be ignorant of that, weirdly.
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Re:Ask HN: How aware are you about building decentralised so... by BrissyCoder on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @09:06PM (#27756242)
Are these users doing anything more than essentially just shuffling more crypto around? No.
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