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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by pythondz on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @05:12AM (#10929707)
The article is about blockchain technology (the title is misleading). So the append-only feature is implied, at least I hope so.
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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by scprodigy on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @05:16AM (#10929725)
Guess the question is why you want a network of nodes, all of which may append a fake record, if you only want no one to change the data.
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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by CyberDildonics on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:11PM (#10933593)
No can append a fake record without the matching private key needed to sign it.
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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by scprodigy on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:26PM (#10935667)
Yes, the point is that decentralization consensus doesn't help.
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Re:UK government urged to use Bitcoin-style digital ledgers by CyberDildonics on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @11:31PM (#10943369)
Now you're moving the goal posts. It does help because it adding or removing from the chain will be noticed.
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