Re:Beyond the Bitcoin bubble
by nabla9 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:46PM
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>I'm not sure I understand what you're predicting exactly
General bookkeeping and shared transaction logs that improve trust and transparency. Improving trust don't always require massively distributed ledgers. Just sharing them with counterparty and having mutual cryptographic agreement is enough for many applications.
Re:Beyond the Bitcoin bubble
by simias on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @04:34PM
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Calling that "blockchain technology" would be pure marketing though. Bittorrent and the various linux package managers would fit your definition for instance.
General bookkeeping and shared transaction logs that improve trust and transparency. Improving trust don't always require massively distributed ledgers. Just sharing them with counterparty and having mutual cryptographic agreement is enough for many applications.