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Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by adhesive_wombat on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:23AM (#31690719)
What does it practically solve that a normal cryptographic signature does not?

Even distributed trust doesn't need a blockchain; web of trust is an example of that.

This is all fairly irrelevant anyway as people do not do not check things before sharing them anyway, and/or trust authenticated information from untrustworthy sources (if Fox News put their reporting on a blockchain, it doesn't suddenly become truth).

Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by rapind on Friday June 10, 2022 @09:34AM (#31693961)
> if Fox News put their reporting on a blockchain, it doesn't suddenly become truth

There's two problems / truths here; 1) the source (E.g. Fox), which is what I think we'll need to verify, and 2) the truth of the content, which is an age old problem with no technical solution I'm aware of (or would even believe if presented with one).

Re:Do kwon sent $80M a month to secret wallets? by adhesive_wombat on Friday June 10, 2022 @11:18AM (#31695380)
Right, but for (1), what does blockchain specifically bring that, say, a normal cryptographic signature does not?