<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>increment_i</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been dabbling recently, and as I&amp;#x27;ve said before I&amp;#x27;m quite put off by the limitations of Ethereum. As it stands now, it&amp;#x27;s main use case appears to be the development of new cryptocoins, perhaps voting applications..? And yet, every now and then you come across a nugget of true insight when working with the Ethereum protocol, for instance the gas payments to nodes to run code effectively should stop DDoS attacks since it would require vast sums of money to disrupt the network. It remains to be seen how valid this idea is in practice, but you could look at ideas like that and say, &amp;quot;Yeah, that seems like a step forward.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Anyways, if Ethereum really will become Web 3.0, then comparatively speaking I&amp;#x27;d say we&amp;#x27;re not even in the 56k modem era yet.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethereum programming for web developers</title><url>https://happyfuncorp.com/whitepapers/webthereum</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tabeth</author><text>Can someone describe a few applications of blockchains in real world applications that &lt;i&gt;cannot&lt;/i&gt; be implemented without a blockchain? I&amp;#x27;m really struggling to come up with even a single case. I thought some sort of secure voting mechanism would be a good candidate, but that too could be done with an immutable database.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: Besides crytocurrencies, I mean.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ethereum programming for web developers</title><url>https://happyfuncorp.com/whitepapers/webthereum</url></story>