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		poisonborz on Sept 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are useless Wow, that was a rather dumb presentation. Basic arguments are like "anonymous nodes are bad because I can't sue them", "smart contracts are unneeded as we mostly just need to store static data" (supplied by authorities), "too much security is paranoid given real life trust with legal enforcement".

BenoitP on Sept 2, 2018 [–]

I believe all these would be for regular already working uses cases that people are trying to shoehorn blockchains onto.

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