Re:NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf]
by c-cube on Sunday October 07, 2018 @06:30PM
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git is not what people call "blockchain", only half of it. The distributed consensus part is not there. Maybe that's what it's both efficient and popular?
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Re:NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf]
by darawk on Sunday October 07, 2018 @08:05PM
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Git absolutely has distributed consensus. That's what merges are. That's the sense in which git is decentralized.
What git does not have is distributed timestamping, which is necessary for a currency, but not version control. And which is why PoW et al were introduced for cryptocurrencies. However, that is not a fundamental property of a blockchain, though it is useful for some (but not all) of the applications of blockchains.