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Re:What is going to happen in 2015 by Spearchucker on Thursday January 01, 2015 @05:07PM (#8824521)
I think we can agree that distributed is better for the consumer than centralized (privacy and availability), but given that the Blockchain is not the only way to achieve a distributed architecture, I'm interested in why I would use the Blockchain when I can achieve similar results with an arguably simpler solution.
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Re:What is going to happen in 2015 by williamcotton on Thursday January 01, 2015 @06:00PM (#8824674)
It's the only decentralized system that can guarantee availability. Data stored in Freenet, BitTorrent and the rest is ephemeral.
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Re:What is going to happen in 2015 by Spearchucker on Thursday January 01, 2015 @08:04PM (#8825053)
The Blockchain is a ledger, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file share service. Difficult comparison.
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Re:What is going to happen in 2015 by miopa on Friday January 02, 2015 @08:29AM (#8826663)
What other systems exist that provide distributed trust architecture?
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