• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    Out of those I only know blockchain being used in spain as a way to ensure legality of accounting books, and that business are not commiting fraud by deleting invoices. Not in a public ledger or anything, just a hashed chain that they need to send to irs equivalent.

  • halloween_spookster@lemmy.world
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    Blockchain is just a ledger. Most systems don’t need a ledger, they need a database. It was a solution looking for a problem in most cases and the marketing/business types don’t listen to the engineers if the engineers are even in the room.

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    As always EU silently doing it right with EBSI, that aims to benefit the public sector (and ultimately the public), and hopefully the digital Euro to come.

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      To call it useless is just untrue. There are many possibilities, Crypto is just a black hole eating the hype and funding that would otherwise go into valuable tech

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    Things are still happening, it’s just slow to adopt.

    E.g.

    https://www.ledgerinsights.com/nasdaqs-calypso-now-supports-blockchain-based-collateral-workflows/

    https://investor.visa.com/news/news-details/2024/Visa-Introduces-the-Visa-Tokenized-Asset-Platform/default.aspx

    There’s a lot of work being done around tokenizing stocks. The 3 day settlement period would become instant for example. But that’s no small feat to implement. That could be a decades long endeavor between all exchanges for example.

    Also until recently, the SEC was hostile towards it all in the USA, with some pivotal multi year long court cases only being resolved in the past year or so where the SEC lost. (E.g is Ethereum a security or not? Well, now it is not. Now we also have the ETFs)

    Ethereum only recently had some pretty big upgrades as well, which are going to be key to unlocking growth potential as well. A couple months ago they had a peak of 800 transactions per second, and the road map of these upgrades going to >100k (note these are including the level 2 networks that use the L1 ethereum for their security, like Arbitrum. Level 1 is somewhere between 15-20 right now. As L1 grows, L2s also grow)

    I don’t know when the killer app that brings everyone into daily use will happen, but more and more behind the scenes things will slowly adopt it and you won’t even realize it. Like maybe when you do a bank to bank transfer, it’ll be that Visa VTAP thing I linked above, and it won’t take 1 to 3 business days.