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by lmm 1638 days ago
Blockchain in the sense of proof-of-work mining? A Merkle tree might make sense, signed updates might make sense, but I don't see that mining adds value in that use case.
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tromp 1638 days ago
PoW, besides being the simplest way to reach consensus, also allow for a fair distribution of new coins.
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lmm 1637 days ago
Huh? How does distributing new coins help with maintaining the do-not-call list?
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