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by mjdesa 1618 days ago
Because they’re open ledgers.

I think of blockchain like I do JavaScript / JSON.

Are the perfect? No. But there’s a lot of time and energy being put into them and sometimes that’s all you really need to get things going.

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> Because they’re open ledgers.

As I explained in another comment in the same thread, it's a far cry from ensuring interoperability. The term "open ledger" is also misguiding since it's just an open ledger of whatever you want to put there, it doesn't necessarily reflect even a representative part of a whole system that would provide some kind of financial service.

As another commenter explained regarding video ownership, there's also no incentive to move any old and non-interoperable system there to begin with.