Re:The blockchain is essentially a linked list
by ralusek on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @04:49PM
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Linked lists can prepend, append, and have items inserted or removed anywhere, and are explicitly built around references to other nodes.
They're neither append-only, nor are they ledgers (which are basically just logs, nowhere in the definition of which is there an implied reference to any other item).
They're neither append-only, nor are they ledgers (which are basically just logs, nowhere in the definition of which is there an implied reference to any other item).