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@marcus
I've seen this go around a few times...

OP's issue: Append only without curation is bad
Blockchain: Is actually curated
CW: We mostly want structures where information will go away if it's being ignored. That's garbage collection, an important characteristics alongside having a structure where the community can't be forced to delete things

Expand: You don't make data go away in a blockchain. Some immutable and append-only stores stop being replicated when there's nobody interested in replicating them. Participants in a blockchain are forced to replicate the entire chain regardless of its size or contents. No amount of venture capital can remove the revenge porn someone inserted with an xor mask or enable me to access a 3 year old ledger from a device with only 16 gb of storage
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