miniblog.

Watching https://youtu.be/15RTC22Z2xI has made me think about what applications blockchains are well suited for. What's the benchmark we should compare against?

Many use cases for blockchains don't seem to require proof-of-work. For example, a land registry. If I could verify that a house purchase has been written to a replicated transaction log, then I'd be satisfied. I suppose this is giving up decentralisation, which seems OK here.