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Re:Web3 is expensive P2P by trenchgun on Monday May 16, 2022 @12:46PM (#31400074)
>A creator on TikTok today can't easily give their most loyal followers discounts on their Shopify store, perks for moderating a Discord, early access to YouTube content, etc.

That could easily be done with plain old public key cryptography.

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Re:Web3 is expensive P2P by Sargos on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:04PM (#31401190)
Blockchains are really just a shared public key cryptography system. It solves the key distribution problem and makes using keys easy for developers and users.
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