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Re:NIST: Blockchain Technology Overview [pdf] by darawk on Sunday October 07, 2018 @08:05PM (#18163306)
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.

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