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by honestlyreally 3327 days ago
Transparent voting mechanisms, prediction markets, p2p betting, gaming micropayments, distributed computing rewards, replacing entire national currencies because of irresponsible governments,etc
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Vague gambling stuff - is this really going to be a 10x improvement over betfair who already offers solid p2p gambling markets with <5% house take?

Distributed computing rewards - maybe for a subgroup off applications (eg. illegal stuff eg. piracy), but in general terms a centralised system is easier, cheaper and quicker to develop

Replacing national currencies - this is already bitcoin's killer app. Ethereum adds almost no utility to this space.