Comment on Steam Families launches into beta, making it easier to buy and share games with your kids

STOMPYI@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And if you get hacked?.. you blockchain fanatics always forget that it’s a ledger, not a database.

  If i were about to hack your account and transfer everything to my account, there is nothing anyone could do about that. Steam admins couldn’t reverse the transaction because everything is stored in a ledger, not a database.

  Your stuff would be gone for good.

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  • ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Block chain fans using the block chain for anything except what block chain is designed for. Name a more iconic duo.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s only use is proving you own something in a decentralized way. If it’s steam we’re buying from them it’s centralized, there’s no need.

    One thing I’d love would be that there’s one proof of ownership chain and companies list their games, you purchase it then it’s on the chain forever. Torrent, download, disc, it checks the chain and shows you own it. But then we still have the “I got hacked and lost my wallet” issue.

    However that will never, and I mean ever happen. The chain is the antithesis of corporate control so nothing like that will happen.

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• TheOneCurly@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And what authority is checking the blockchain to see if you’re the owner. Some kind of trusted 3rd party maybe? Making the whole blockchain thing pointless?

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  • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But you don’t understand! We could kill the environment faster and make it more difficult to prove you own something if you get hacked! Two birds getting stoned at once or something

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• nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  rental . . . for rent . . . we could actually own

  hmmmm

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