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by spiralx 1370 days ago
Estonia uses a blockchain to act as an immutable way to store timestamped hashes of government data for security and verification purposes - they started building this a year before the Bitcoin whitepaper was released in fact. That's the only valuable use for blockchains I've seen.

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