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Re:Bitbucket Down - Major Outage by icebraining on Monday October 16, 2017 @09:47AM (#15483138)
You don't need a Blockchain for that. You just store the public keys of the allowed users on the repository itself.

Giving readable names to repositories is a possible use case, although I'd just use DNS.

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Re:Bitbucket Down - Major Outage by hobofan on Monday October 16, 2017 @09:56AM (#15483200)
Yeah, I guess you are right, a blockchain is probably not an absolute requirement for that. I think though, that decentralized maintenance of open source project would be a logical next step, and a blockchain-based system could certainly be useful there. This could help prevent a lot of stale/abandoned projects from dying where the only maintainers of a project leave it to rot and there is no one left to review PRs coming from the community.
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Re:Bitbucket Down - Major Outage by icebraining on Monday October 16, 2017 @09:58AM (#15483212)
How would the blockchain help there?
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