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A database? Do you understand what blockchains are for? Why does regulated securities trading need to be censorship resistant rather than just secure?

mbrock on Sept 21, 2017 [–]

Those two properties seem to go hand in hand.

How do you imagine an ICO taking place without a blockchain? It seems like a contradiction in terms: the "C" means a blockchain token.

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