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For a long time, I thought of the blockchain as almost synonymous with cryptocurrencies, so as I saw stuff like "Odyssey" and "lbry" appearing and being "based on the blockchain", my first thought was that it was another crypto scam. Then, I just got reminded of it and started looking more into it, and it just seemed like regular torrenting. For example, what's the big innovation separating Odyssey from Peertube, which is also decentralized and also uses P2P? And what part of it does the blockchain really play, that couldn't be done with regular P2P? More generally, and looking at the futur, does the blockchain offer new possibilities that the fediverse or pre-existing protocols don't have?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've heard of a couple interesting applications (interesting doesn't necessarily mean good)

  1. I've been out of the industry for a couple years, but at the time I left both the US's NAR and CA's CREA were looking to create blockchains that would eventually hold an immutable history of every salable property in North America. The sales pitch is that no one will ever be able to hide things like flood damage or zoning changes if they're all those events are in a trusted database. Carfax, but for buildings.

  2. Several US states with legalized Marijuana have what are known as Seed To Sale laws. One company was trying to move into this space and eventually into all of agriculture. The idea being that if you buy pot, scanning a QR code would tell you what clone# the seeds were from, where and when it was planted, what pesticides/herbicides were used on/near it, when it was harvested, any tests it had gone through, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I have two questions about this:

  • Why use blockchain for that? Both of these sound like they will be centralized databases and blockchains just add a bunch of overhead for no benefit.
  • How does a database prevent me from ... just lying to it? The blockchain won't magically detect if I paid off some guy to claim he inspected my house or weed and just hand out a certificate.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably transparency. It's a public ledger. That's one of the benefits I'm aware of.