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Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3 by DarylZero on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:24AM (#29851434)
The cooperative model requires people to coordinate on choosing the same human authority figure.

Blockchain only requires people to coordinate on choosing the same programmatic criteria for block validity (and then choosing the longest valid chain).

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Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3 by bombcar on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:53AM (#29851677)
Which practically ends up the same - see the Etherium fork/rollback.

One potential use maybe would be a blockchain that is openly run by a company (80+% of nodes or something) but if you also run a note it could continue after the company ceases to be.

There are other ways to do that but it might almost be a reasonable use case.

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Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3 by DarylZero on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:55AM (#29851693)
You can point to that event but it's actually not enough to establish that it "practically ends up the same."
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Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3 by stransky on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:49PM (#29854132)
You can ignore the event, but the trust we’re to put in the blockchain is based on a promise that such an event can’t happen, but it did.
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Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3 by DarylZero on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:08PM (#29858662)
Not really. The old chain even still exists.

Also, Ethereum is different from a real blockchain.

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