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Re:Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates by hannob on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @12:26PM (#12789256)
That's pretty much what Google announced today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12784295

(Certificate Transparency is basically a Blockchain. And this may be one of the few cases where a blockchain-like technology actually makes sense.)

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Re:Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates by schoen on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:24PM (#12789784)
Ben Laurie, who co-invented CT, claims not to favor blockchains (especially with proof-of-work), e.g.

http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf

He seems to have argued that CT's log works on different principles, although surely it's influenced by all of the revitalized consensus work that's happened after the Bitcoin paper.

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