@benroyce@mastodon.social @Jazone@theforkiverse.com @mattblaze@federate.social Did you know most crypto currencies no longer even use the blockchain? It's true! All those crypto exchanges found it so inconvenient to have to wait for miners to generate a new block (never mind the limited number of transactions that could actually be encoded into each block) that they now use essentially standard banking tools and databases for their intra-exchange transactions and, where agreements exist, even for some inter-exchange transactions.