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by makeitdouble 243 days ago
Haven't crypto an opposite bias, with no guarantee that any given transaction's ledger will stay relevant ?

Dropping votes is as problematic as allowing too many.

In general, money transactions have failure modes that don't match what we want for other use cases. That's the same trap as using credit card payments for ID verification, it only works if you don't actually care about the ID.

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Yes and no. Confirmation takes time. But it heavily depends on the crypto. Some can be pretty fast. Once confirmed it's guaranteed, it won't drop off.

Assuming you can vote from the comfort of your phone or home, that's kind of the whole point, it doesn't matter much if you have to wait even 30 min to get confirmation.