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Cory Doctorow on Blockchain, Crypto & Web3

Life Itself Podcast

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The Irrevocability of a Data Base

Cryptography is such that we could never arrive at without making it unbreakable, right? That's a separate issue. If you want to build a system that works well and fails gracefully, if you build it out of computers that produce unreliable output, which all computers do, one of the ways to give it a soft landing is to make it revocable. And i don't think that that should be a hard limit. There are times we needto go up to remove things from places. We have the white paper, which is tradiousy quite difficult to faras and ha, the smart contract, it's really putting ourselvesa real risk. I'm not saying that

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