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According to Lemmy Users: Blockchain was a grift, AI is a grift, Quantum computing will be a future grift. So according to you what new and emergent technologies are not / will not be a grift? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

If login tokens are stored on a public ledger replay attacks write themselves. Public or private, keeping every login token ever is a horrible audit mechanism and doesn’t scale well. At scale, speed to generate becomes a concern. Not at scale, something lighter is faster.

A normal database scales better than a license blockchain and doesn’t require extra computation to write. Audit logs and hashes prevent extra edits. License files signed by a central authority don’t require a database and the central authority is functionally equivalent albeit less expensive than a blockchain.

I am still interested in a good use for the tech. I have yet to see one that is genuine.