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by bytelines 1639 days ago
Yes, exactly. And now think of all the limitations of running a PKI.

For many use cases, Crypto doesn't do things a PKI can't. It just does them without some of those limitations.

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> It just does them without some of those limitations.

How so?

The hard problem is linking a public key to a real-world identity. A blockchain doesn’t help with this in any way.