[laserbeam]

> There has yet to be a usecase for distributed ledger that isn't solved better by a centralised ledger

As I understand it, many countries in the European Union use distributed ledgers for elections. Essentially it lets you cross reference votes and store that database across servers in multiple countries. It also prevents post-election data tampering by the state holding the election.

My understanding is this this system is not an open to every random Joe who wants to have a server (like bitcoin is). I think you still need to be a state actor to be part of the distributed database (so it's not a zero trust environment).

(Unfortunately, I don't have any good links to back this claim up)