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Where I can see blockchain being more 'actually' useful is in simple things, like verifying the integrity of the app (or anything really), ala checksum hashes.

It makes a lot of sense for us to store them on the blockchain rather than hosting it on a webpage.



You need blockchain only when you want to prevent double spending of _something_. A linked list where only one node can have a valid pointer to the previous node.

For checksum hashes, unless double spending is a problem, IPFS will suffoce.


You don't need a blockchain to prevent double spending. You only need a blockchain if you want the double spending prevention to happen between trustless distributed peers.


You are right, and I think this aptly captures just how misunderstood Blockchain is even on this forum.


I used "only when". It's a necessary, but not sufficient, condition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity


We have been doing that without blockchains with PKI for a long time.




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