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Re:Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Block... by imhoguy on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:32AM (#18074808)
Sounds like another buzzword charged write-once database.
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Re:Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Block... by ruiquelhas on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:32AM (#18075227)
Is it really write-once though? I'm pretty sure there's no PoW involved (didn't bother to read) so all bets are off.
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Re:Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Block... by rocqua on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:26AM (#18075648)
You can replace PoW by a simple signatures, or a quorum of signatures. This is quite centralized, but still write-once.

In any case, with a 'hash-linked-chain-of-blocks' attempted forks are really easy to prove.

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Re:Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Block... by ruiquelhas on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:18AM (#18121903)
I get that, but there are no guarantees it is write-once, because it might happen that the "quorum of signatures" changes their mind.
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Re:Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Block... by muthdra on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:37AM (#18074840)
"buzzword charged" is a great expression.
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