"Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database."
The scientific community will disagree with this. The whole culture of independent peer review process assumes there is no centralized control over scientific conclusions, whose rigor stems from decentralized feedback. The time when centralized database (source of truth) became the basis of mainstream science was during the dark ages.
The scientific community will disagree with this. The whole culture of independent peer review process assumes there is no centralized control over scientific conclusions, whose rigor stems from decentralized feedback. The time when centralized database (source of truth) became the basis of mainstream science was during the dark ages.