If you are gonna downvote, say something.

I can’t tell if you’re downvoting because you saw the word “blockchain”, or you really love it.

I’m using quotes in the title, because I suspect a major amount of people use the word “blockchain” loosely to refer to other related things. If you are willing to, please provide a definition of what you mean by “blockchain” as well.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Blockchain is touted as an immutable ledger of transactions visible to everyone.

    The only proper use case I can see for it is audit logs where you never want to loose what transaction happened. That being said, we have existing technologies which provide this at a smaller footprint.

  • stinerman [Ohio]@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I mostly hate that people don’t use an article before the term or correctly pluralize it. Saying “we want to use blockchain” is like saying “we want to build house”. You want to use a blockchain/use blockchains/use blockchain technology.

    I don’t hate the technology itself. I hate what the applications of the technology have brought us.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    As a technology it’s nothing special, a solution looking for a problem.

    As a speculative bubble and tech industry gold rush it was outright destructive.

    Of course, unless it makes a comeback somehow, the days of blockchain as a tech industry gold rush seem to be over. Now the samesuch grifters are pushing AI (ANOTHER solution looking for a problem) where it don’t belong instead.

  • Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I dont trust crypto stuff bc it’s essentially gambling, and any non-crypto use is worse than just an encrypted text file.