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by UncleEntity 1467 days ago
Couldn’t they just give them a public/private key combo and solve the exact same problem without maintaining a blockchain?
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They don’t need the generate it, the user supplies it with the client side web3 wallet. They don’t need to maintain a blockchain, they can use various portable apis to query it.
Blockchain solves the double spend problem here, without reliance on a central clearing house.