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Re:Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty by diegocerdan on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:16AM (#18227894)
Is utterly funny to read people's opinions bashing against blockchain technology and when asked about a simple definition they fail to mention the use of consensus protocols which was, already 10 years ago, the huge innovation that lead to this revolution.
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Re:Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty by tomc1985 on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:40PM (#18230808)
Consensus protocols are nothing new. The novel part of blockchains is the actual blockchain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)

You're thinking of a distributed ledger, which combine blockchains with consensus protocols

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Re:Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty by jon_richards on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:56AM (#18228576)
I prefer the "proof of work != blockchain" comments when people include the most common consensus protocol in their simple description of blockchain.
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