[throwaway82652]

>Completely disregarding any advances in cryptography or consensus

Because those advances exist in spite of blockchains. I wish blockchains were a useful technology, but they actually aren't. I've seen zero advances in distributed ledgers that are actually helped by blockchains. The use of a blockchain strictly makes it worse. And even past that I've seen very, very few situations where the whole idea of a distributed ledger even makes sense to begin with.

If you want to communicate a way this technology is useful then just do it and make me care, don't waste time going on about merkle trees and consensus algorithms and getting sucked into the same reductionist trap of singling out some minor technical details.

[c0mptonFP]

> If you want to communicate a way this technology is useful then just do it and make me care

I purposely didn't, because then I'm committed to defending dozens of attacks. I already do a lot to educate people on DLTs on several platforms. I'm not gonna turn HN discussions into my full-time job.

If you don't like it, you can fuck off.

[rvz]

I bet that you will see the same extreme anti-crypto regulars screaming and crying on yet another blockchain, crypto related post on HN again.

They won't go away that easily. They are really waiting for the next crypto scam / Defi hack or Ask HN about blockchains or crypto to be posted before doing so and it's very predictable.

Anything about posts like this [0], you won't see them.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto