Re:Blockchains from the ground up: Part 1
by lawrenceyan on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:48AM
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You're digging too deep into things. The technicalities of what a blockchain are fundamentally semantical. Most people when referencing "the blockchain" are also implying the portion relating decentralized trustless consensus. So the "simplest possible blockchain" would also require that component.
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In every post i've made it has been crystal clear I'm referring to "blockchain the data-structure"... The "consensus component" is an algorithm for detecting if one blockchain disagrees with other blockchains, and ignoreing it if it does.