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A comment on “The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs. Parent comment

Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by tlrobinson on Saturday November 20, 2021 @01:50PM (#29290744)
Sure, if you only trust certain enforcers (which obviously you should) then it’s federated, not fully decentralized.

I think a blockchain can still be useful in federated systems.

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Re:“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ ... by littlestymaar on Sunday November 21, 2021 @03:43AM (#29295005)
> I think a blockchain can still be useful in federated systems.

How so? As soon as you have to trust someone, you've lost the only benefit of blockchains and using one would only give the terrible performance characteristic of those for no benefit.

Each trusted enforcer having its own database is a way better architecture.

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