Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ...
by jobigoud on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:14AM
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> I'm still pissed at all the people who've decided they should call my non-autonomous quadcopters "drones"
Apparently we should call them quadpters because it's based on helicopter for which the ethymology is not heli + copter, but helico + pter, like in helicoidal and pterodactyl.
Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ...
by taejo on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @03:47AM
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Or tetrapter, to stick with Greek roots (though I'm personally fine with heteroradicalism!)
Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ...
by bigiain on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:33PM
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From now on, I'm shall call them "spinning dinosaurs"!
"Hey mister! Is that your drone?" "No kid, it's not a drone, it's a spinning dinosaur..."
Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ...
by bittcto on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:27AM
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The entire point of Bitcoin is the distributed trustless consensus mechanism. Read the Nakamoto white paper, it’s all about double spending.
A chain of hashed data dates back to Merkle himself, that’s what a Merkle tree is.
The entire point of bitcoin is distributed independent truth and that’s the entire point of a Blockchain.
It sounds like the Surity thing had "blocks" consisting of a week's worth of documents which got chained together and had their hash published irrevocably every week.
Without the subsequent invention and popularity of the specific implementation of the bitcoin blockchain - I don't think the slow/costly consensus "feature" could be considered a requirement to distinguish between "hash chains" and "block chains" like that.
(But I'm regularly on the losing side of nomenclature arguments - I'm still pissed at all the people who've decided they should call my non-autonomous quadcopters "drones"...)