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What are the best criticisms of blockchain technology?
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Geremia
on 05/06/2015, 05:02:54 UTC
What are the best criticisms of blockchain technology? Specifically, what are the top flaws of the blockchain as it's currently implemented by Bitcoin?

A few I can think of:
  • double SHA-256 proof-of-work isn't computationally useful for anything (GridCoin is still affected by this criticism to a certain extent);
  • it's not as immune to centralization as it could be (control of blockchain is proportional to computing power; it should be proportional to number of human users).

(cf. related Bitcoin StackExchange question)