Since I gave you an example that was *adjacent* to blockchain, I'll give you my current favorite blockchain tool: https://subscriptions.llamapay.io Streaming peer to peer payments. Pay rent/subscribe to a creator/do payroll directly. Unused deposits earn interest. You only touch your funds and they theirs.
does IPFS itself utilize a blockchain? or is it the relation/integration with it Filecoin and dApps, that use blockchains? I've never looked at those projects that closely
I wasn't sure and after diving a bit deeper I think you are correct! I think it's just the filesystem. Filecoin and dapps build with it so often mentally fused it together.
Merkle trees are good - git is based on them - and when you see crypto zealots tout "the blockchain" it's almost certainly one of those but hosted on a system with normal account-based security
Crypto's big stupid is zero trust not the tech used to create zero trust, I think
wait, does bsky plan on integration?
-"... financing led by Blockchain Capital ..."
-"This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)"
it does solve real world problems: the problem of how criminals can get paid. E.g. Ransomware wouldn't exist without cryptocurrency. It also gives North Korea a lucrative target for hacking.
IMO making crime easier is a bad thing to solve IMESHO.
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Like if a party wanted to ensure data is on the network they'd have to host their own node right?
Crypto's big stupid is zero trust not the tech used to create zero trust, I think
-"... financing led by Blockchain Capital ..."
-"This does not change the fact that the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)"
https://www.unicef.org/innovation/blockchain
https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/blockchain-and-sustainable-growth
IMO making crime easier is a bad thing to solve IMESHO.