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by XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 3179 days ago
The best litmus test I have seen is "Are double spends a problem in your architecture?"

If not you probably don't need a blockchain.
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dozzie 3178 days ago
The best litmus test is "is telling which document was earlier helping in anything?", because this is precisely what blockchain is solving.
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XR0CSWV3h3kZWg 3177 days ago
Fair enough
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s17n 3178 days ago
The use-case here is a decentralized mechanism for providing (at least approximately) validated timestamps, which it seems to me a blockchain can do.
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