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My question with any blockchain application is always what does it solve that a centralized trusted database doesn't solve faster and with less waste? You can implement social recovery in a centralized database with less waste.

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trustless, immutable, censorship resistant, permissionless.

How is any of that useful for a particular application? For every single application blockchain has been applied to, these are downsides.

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