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Mind sharing what those use-cases are? Most of what I've heard of blockchains for non-cryptocurrency, non-token things are either cases where the blockchain is still permissioned (with some sort of root-like user with god powers), or could just as well be a DHT (like ipfs & bittorrent), or are things that sound interesting as a thought experiment but could never scale to their intended use-case, or something that is already solved by much simpler tech.

I'm open to the idea that blockchains are interesting as a tech but I have yet to see what they would be the best solution for besides illegal activity or speculation.



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