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Re:NFT marketplace shuts, citing 'rampant' fakes, plagiarism... by after_care on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:54AM (#30313236)
> crypto more broadly

Think about all of the licensing, money printing, and registration agencies to ever exist. What percentage of them have significant corruption? Blockchains provides a lot of stability in a way more traditional human organizations fail to.

Re:NFT marketplace shuts, citing 'rampant' fakes, plagiarism... by adhesive_wombat on Saturday February 12, 2022 @01:50PM (#30315193)
At the end of the day, the vehicle registration agency still needs to issue the license, so what's the benefit of a blockchain here? You do not need a blockchain to, say, cryptographically sign something such that it can be verified as a genuine item. And blockchain won't stop corrupt minting of licenses by the agency. And even if you did need a blockchain, the ledger wouldn't be public because the data on it is private. So now it's just a database with a ton of extra steps, complexity and kneecapped performance.