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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Openly distributed while being private(-ish; I know blockchains aren't truly private but it could at least obfuscate it adequately against casual or semi serious attempts to identify someone)

I'll admit I'm no expert or even particularly well versed in blockchain technologies, but my (limited) understanding of them suggests this might actually be the kind of thing it's good at (as opposed to how it could seemingly do anything a few years ago and everyone was trying to shoehorn a blockchain into their products)

And to underline part of my comment, I did say "I wonder if..." rather than asserting that it would work or even that I bet it would work

[–] capital@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Fedi technologies are already distributed. That's literally what federation is about.

Blockchain isn't private by default although some have gone that direction. Bitcoin, for example, is pseudonymous - all transactions are public to the world though no tx is tied to an identity on chain.

Any privacy features you're imagining can be built for a blockchain solution to this problem could be built into a "normal", web 2.0, federated solution that would be far less expensive to run, resource-wise.

It's almost always the case that when someone comes up with blockchain as the solution to some problem, they mean distributed or maybe self-hosted. Neither of which requires a blockchain.

Check out videos involving crypto on the Cartoon Avatar's youtube channel such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xq721IAqBo&t.