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Definitely, blockchains aren't secure in the way that many Ethereum apps seem to think they are.

But for certain types of lower stakes applications (say a log running on a mesh network of sensors) blockchains can provide a simple way to do something that could otherwise be fairly complicated. Certain blockchain implementations (I like MultiChain) are really easy to use.




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