Re:IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – ...
by war1025 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @03:27PM
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In my experience, when people say "blockchain" what they actually want is something closer to a Merkle tree like what Git uses for its commit hashes.
It's great to be able to say "here is the list of changes, and I can re-run them and come up with the same hash, so nothing was tampered with"
The "here is a random key that took a lot of work to find and when you add it to the hash chain we get X number of zeroes" part is really not that useful in most cases.
It's great to be able to say "here is the list of changes, and I can re-run them and come up with the same hash, so nothing was tampered with"
The "here is a random key that took a lot of work to find and when you add it to the hash chain we get X number of zeroes" part is really not that useful in most cases.