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50+ Real-World Blockchain Use Cases

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12 points by halfbrown 8 years ago · 10 comments

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BreakfastB0b 8 years ago

50+ Real-World Blockchain Use Cases that all involve some kind of trusted party thus invalidating the whole point of using a blockchain in the first place. Call me when you have a solution to the Trustless Oracle Problem. Until then just use a fucking database.

  • dick_sucker2 8 years ago

    There is the ChainLink project that aims to solve the problem of centralized Oracles.

  • deltateam 8 years ago

    these offer ala carte solutions for bootstrapping a network and aligning economic incentives

    you don't need a blockchain or other distributed ledger technology to do it, yet the community built around those DLT projects are much more supportive and more economically aligned and are cheaply acquired

    giving advantages over both

    - private equity fundraising

    - kickstarter style consumer-product fundraising

    it doesn't matter if thats an agreeable stance, that is the reality right now. If you don't like it, then a series of tools have to be made to compete, good luck bootstrapping your community around that goal.

ummjackson 8 years ago

The guy who created this is the CEO of "essentia.one", who are listed 4 times on the infographic. Blatant self-promotion. Cringe. https://twitter.com/ZagoMatteoGian/status/100942661434465894...

startupdiscuss 8 years ago

Some of these seem to weaken the case for blockchain for two reasons:

1. They ultimately require some kind of real world authority. For instance a land registry requires the authority to accept the transaction and then enforce it.

2. They're just using crypto

It would be interesting to see which 3-5 of these applications people think genuinely require the block chain and serve a need.

  • dick_sucker2 8 years ago

    That's the extreme end of things. It's like saying that no application can ever be decentralized because developers are involved. If you're looking for a perfect system then blockchain doesn't make sense. But in that case the internet doesn't make sense either and we should all go back to pen and paper.

    • dang 7 years ago

      Sorry, but you can't have an account called dick_sucker2 on HN. That amounts to trolling the site with everything you post.

      I've banned the account but you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com with a better username and we can rename it for you and unban it.

egwynn 8 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292797

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