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by jayd16 2956 days ago
Probably because they're not trying to actually solve a problem. They're just on the hype train.

More seriously, if the name of the game is efficiency then a distributed ledger isn't the answer.

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> More seriously, if the name of the game is efficiency then a distributed ledger isn't the answer.

And if you're only looking for immutability, then time-stamping is already good enough (and available since the late 90s or so). I suppose you can use a Merkle tree and then proceed to put "Blockchain" in your marketing materials without technically lying.