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There's no need for block chain over a regular database for any of that.
It’s like blockchain people haven’t heard of a database before. Blockchains are remarkably inefficient way to do what we’ve been improving since Hollerith machines.
Especially when it’s deployed in places you really don’t want immutability (which is basically most scenarios people seem to try and shoehorn it in).
It's because blockchain had better marketing.
For years I thought I was just too dumb to understand why blockchain it's THE shit for stuff like that.
Just like the NoSQL people when that was the new hyped thing: But it's webscale!
I still like it, but it's for sure not a a tool for every job.
I haven't met a database I couldn't modify, in 30+ years of work in security world.
Properly implemented blockchain tech could be used to guarantee/verify elections integrity.
Or budgets spending.
Or any other thing that we don't fucking trust cunts in power to not abuse.