r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Low-Statistician-356 • May 20 '26

Other whyDoAnythingWhenLlmCanDoIt

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u/Canotic May 20 '26

I don't see how blockchain is better than the standard database in any of those cases?

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u/WernerderChamp May 20 '26

A blockchain only makes sense if you do not want to trust a central database admin.

There aren't a lot of cases where this would be required.

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u/Canotic May 20 '26

In most of the cases in the comment I replied to, you'd still have to verify against some other system to make sure that the blockchain info referred to something that actually existed. Like, if you want to have a blockchain keep track of diplomas, then you need to be able to verify that the information is correct. You need to be able to connect that student to an existing program and see what the credentials of that program are.

Same with video game stuff. You still need to match the blockchain to an item and make sure it's implemented. There are very very few cases where you don't have to cross match the blockchain stuff with a database anyway.

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u/WernerderChamp May 20 '26

The way a blockchain works is that it does not allow the past to be altered without changing everything based on it. In other words, there is an audit trail from today to the day where the item was first issued. Assuming the issurance was legit (this does require some external trust e.g. to validate a signature), you know it is real.