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Re:Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name t... by INTPenis on Saturday December 23, 2017 @08:49AM (#15994141)
>By the way, I'm not even going to go into the fact that "The Blockchain" only functions with mining

I'm not very informed but I was under the impression that the blockchain is just a technology that happens to be used for cryptocurrencies. When used for currencies it requires "mining".

But if one were to use the technology for tracking shipping containers or mail then what sort of mining would need to be done?

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Re:Long Island Iced Tea Soars 500% After Changing Its Name t... by spookthesunset on Thursday December 28, 2017 @06:40PM (#16026131)
Take away the mining and all you've got is basically a less capable version of Git - which is somewhat the same data structure (a merkle tree)

So to answer your question indirectly, unless you like using inappropriate, inefficient data structures--if you are gonna be tracking shipping containers or the mail.... a good old fashioned database is what you need.

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