Re:Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don'...
by Alex3917 on Friday November 30, 2018 @08:36PM
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> Blockchain replicates computing costs.
Which is about as relevant as the cost of tea in china.
Or, to steal another analogy, counting on database efficiency as the competitive advantage for your business is like picking up nickels in front of a steamroller. Especially since DLT efficiency will eventually be figured out. Even if it takes another five or ten years or even twenty years, that's nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Re:Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don'...
by spookthesunset on Friday November 30, 2018 @09:17PM
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> Especially since DLT efficiency will eventually be figured out.
Lol. The BlockChain is inefficient by design! It is that exact inefficiency that makes it trustless.
Re:Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don'...
by atq2119 on Saturday December 01, 2018 @06:22AM
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Yes, it is. But to be fair to the DLT people, distributed ledgers could be useful without proof of work. They simply need a different, domain-specific consensus mechanism.
Git is basically a distributed ledger without the proof of work inefficiency.
Re:Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don'...
by tomrod on Sunday December 02, 2018 @08:40PM
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Right. But that's just distributed info, it's more or less a solved problem for many things (P2P, git, etc.). The proof of work is the "value add" of the enterprise, as it were, and there are certainly valuable use cases. But the implementation of distributed, cryptographically secure ledgers are not without tradeoffs--there is no free lunch.
It may cut fraud costs, but there are other ways to do that. Blockchain replicates computing costs relative to centralized data stores, so implementations have non-zero scaling costs.