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Re:The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:13AM (#27769737)
> eg: owning a domain name

I just want to comment on the only tangible use case you mention.

What happens the day a rogue actor gets ahold of .gov, NSA/CIA/DHS, or Google's/Microsoft's domain and sends it to /dev/null?

The "no central authority" point of Blockchains is too risky.

Ps, saying that Blockchains solve the double spend problem is like saying the iPhone solves the "running-out-of-battery" problem; it comes with a charger. Nowhere else do we have the double spend problem, simply because we have a CA.