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I conjecture that blockchain only solves peer-to-Peter digital currency, I.e Bitcoin. I conjecture it has no business solution about supply chains or tracking bananas or weed or porn any other nonsense. Almost invariably, a central authority actually exists and is hidden behind buzzwords, or its a bad version of Git.


Look into Saito. Universal broadcast PKI networks are useful for more than just money.


"look into it" how?


Not that I approve this usage, but why not weed?


Explain to me why you need a blockchain for anything to do with weed (and not bananas)?


Decentralised marketplace, maybe? Open-source, trustless. So people can't scam you. Not saying that blockchain is a good way to do this: For instance, privacy would be a major red-flag, as well as the question of who's going to do the mining.

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Just found this: https://openbazaar.org/ Doesn't appear to use its own blockchain. Does use cryptocurrency though, for largely privacy and anti-censorship reasons. Uses multisig capabilities in Bitcoin to enable escrow/chargeback.

As to why you wouldn't do the same thing for bananas: Weed is illegal, so any business selling weed is in danger of being shut down. Something decentralised is more immune to getting shutdown. Compare Napster (centralised) to BitTorrent (decentralised).


As I said:

> I conjecture that blockchain only solves peer-to-[peer] digital currency

You kinda just described something like Silk Road right?




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