• Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Digital ownership on one (1) blockchain. Not really that great when you put it like that. What makes one Blockchain more authoritative than another? Even in a closed system, if you think the admins of these chains don’t keep a kill switch in their back pocket specifically for their advantage in ownership conflicts then you should probably read about Ethereum Classic. Even if they don’t want to hard fork, if a chain is controlled entirely by a company, then they can edit it however they want regardless since it’s not really decentralized. The idea that Blockchains will empower the customer with digital ownership is silly to me.

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      9 months ago

      Is a chain is controlled by a single entity then it’s not a blockchain, it’s a linked list with extra steps.

      The whole point of a blockchain is that it’s independently verifiable/validated by all its users. Anything else is a literal scam.