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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's a really cool technology, but the main problem is that letting people around the world inspect and verify just isn't needed in most use cases. It does a great job at removing the central source of truth, but rarely does anyone explain what the problem with a central source of truth was. Especially when you're talking about a company setting, startups don't want to build open source software without a source of truth, they want to be the source of truth