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by jeroenhd 1422 days ago
Blockchains are expensive in terms of money and energy consumption.

I'm not paying $10-$30 to store data on the ethereum blockchain every time I need to add some kind of datum (assuming the ethereum blockchain). That price will only go up once such a system actually becomes used by many parties, making the system even more expensive.

I'm already overpaying for getting the government to do stuff for me. I don't want to overpay some random servers all over the world instead of my government, that's just moving (and duplicating) the problem.