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minus-squareMentalEdgelinkfedilink45•edit-21 year agoWhile that is an inherent component of how proof-of-work cryptos work, and utterly stupid, it’s not an inherent part of how to do blockchains. You can have a blockchain without consuming stupid amounts of energy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 year agoThere aren’t a lot of distributed databases with no single owner and all writes are signed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink19•1 year agoYeah, but not having an owner is actually a fucking terrible thing for a banking system, how do you not grasp this?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoI do grasp it. I don’t really know what situation it makes sense for. It seems like a tool for cases where nobody can agree who should own the records of something so now everyone should.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoNo owner is great for a banking system. It stops the owner printing money whenever they feel like it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoexactly, you have others methods of proof-of-work
While that is an inherent component of how proof-of-work cryptos work, and utterly stupid, it’s not an inherent part of how to do blockchains.
You can have a blockchain without consuming stupid amounts of energy.
Yeah it’s called a database…
There aren’t a lot of distributed databases with no single owner and all writes are signed.
Yeah, but not having an owner is actually a fucking terrible thing for a banking system, how do you not grasp this?
I do grasp it.
I don’t really know what situation it makes sense for. It seems like a tool for cases where nobody can agree who should own the records of something so now everyone should.
No owner is great for a banking system. It stops the owner printing money whenever they feel like it.
Bruh
exactly, you have others methods of proof-of-work