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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by ianpurton on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @04:52AM (#10929632)
The one possible benefit would be immutable databases.
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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by cm2187 on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @04:55AM (#10929649)
But can't this be achieved with a simple cryptographic signature?
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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by CyberDildonics on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:01PM (#10933514)
No, because you need a chain to know if things haven't been removed or added.
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