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Re:Eric Brewer on Why Banks Are BASE Not ACID – Availability... by amscanne on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:52PM (#12522132)
> Bitcoin and Ethereum and their ilk have, out of necessity, valued ACID qualities above all else

They definitely don't have ACID properties.

The blockchain gives you something like eventual consistency, but it's probabilistic.

You have atomicity within a single block, but given the acceptance of the block is only eventually consistent, I'm not sure it's meaningful.

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