Re:Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides
by jayd16 on Sunday April 01, 2018 @08:37PM
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I do kind of find it annoying that we use the word distributed when its a clustered/consensus system. In my mind distributed should mean actors can work independently of each other but that's not really the case here. But this ship has sailed.
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I'm not sure why a clustered system can't be distributed? One can always argue over taxonomy, but clustered systems are typically considered to be a type of a distributed system.
I'm also super curious why you think blockchain systems don't have actors that work independently of each other? I was always under the impression that was the entire point.
>clustered systems are typically considered to be a type of a distributed system.
Sort of. However, a Perforce server with local replicas is not the same thing as a fully offline git transaction, for example.
>I'm also super curious why you think blockchain systems don't have actors that work independently of each other?
They work as part of the network but two users can't make a transaction without having to involve the network.