Re:Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain
by dozzie on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @07:42PM
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>> Blockchain does not build distributed consensus, it's a totally different thing: document timestamping service.
> i think you missed the part where i said "I think this is because people mean different things when they talk about "blockchains"."
Oh? So you say that they don't mean a cryptographically linked list of
blocks, like Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain) describes?
Because that's exactly how timestamping works: unmodifiable list of documents,
from which you can tell which document was issued earlier. Then what else do
they mean?
> i think you missed the part where i said "I think this is because people mean different things when they talk about "blockchains"."
Oh? So you say that they don't mean a cryptographically linked list of blocks, like Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain) describes? Because that's exactly how timestamping works: unmodifiable list of documents, from which you can tell which document was issued earlier. Then what else do they mean?