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Forceful_Dragon posted...

But I don't see where it hurts either.

This is a totally different and laughably weak argument. Imagine if btc or eth came out with this argument in their white papers?

But that's not the case. Blockchains have a clear cost vs dev-owned DBs. They are 3rd party infrastructure that the dev has to work with, which is much more complicated and expensive for them. Migrations and data repair might not be possible either.

It's also much more expensive for the user to interact with it. If the dev uses a good chain like eth, it ends up being really expensive, because gas cost rises with quality and value. If they use a shitty fad coin then it's really cheap, but then you're trusting a shitcoin which can be hacked or manipulated. Ethereum was also hacked once you know? So it's not bulletproof either, just the best option available.

PoS also does use a good amount of energy. It's thousands of times less than PoW but that still puts it way higher than a web request. The cost is absolutely worth it for decentralized currency, but absolutely not for decentralized game skins and shit.

The fact is, a decentralized DB for currency solves a problem that nearly 100% of people have. But a decentralized DB for in-game assets solves a problem exactly 0 people had.