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		rblatz on Sept 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to p... Why would you put blockchain in this?

damnyou on Sept 24, 2020 [–]

For micropayments per stream, presumably.

rmah on Sept 24, 2020 | [–]

Blockchain is not suitable for micropayments. The computing resource requirements are many orders of magnitude too high.

damnyou on Sept 24, 2020 | | [–]

A proof of work blockchain isn't suitable, but proof of work is one of many ways to reach distributed consensus.

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