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But when something is a decentralized immutable ledger and global consensus, it tends to solve problems of decentralized immutable ledgers and global consensus.



>decentralized immutable ledger and global consensus

These aren't problems, they're potential solutions to problems. Bitcoin and Blockchains are solutions to specific problems in currency and trust.


They are the structure of of decentralized systems. A comment system can be seen as (and is possibly already implemented as) an immutable ledger of transactions - adding comments, voting, edits etc.

So decentralizing those things that can be represented at their core as a ledger of transactions is very much a problem which blockchains solve.




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