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Re:Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides by lojack on Monday April 02, 2018 @09:31PM (#16741160)
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.

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Re:Why “blockchain” is BS in 4 slides by jayd16 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:23PM (#16746930)
>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.

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