IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing

Re:IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – ... by Xelbair on Thursday February 04, 2021 @04:18AM (#26023957)

Quite frankly yes.

Because in most cases, speaking from experience, after model change they will be using a new model without doing proper conversion of old data. This happened to cadastral data over here - new schema required some fields explicitly, while old data did not have them digitized, and country-wide system was made with such assumptions. It does not work to this day properly.

Archive the old chain, deploy the new one with migrated latest state from the old chain transformed to new model. keep working.

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Re:IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – ... by tomrod on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:36PM (#26027670)

And deployment requires a central authority to define.

Inherently, this cuts most use cases off at the knees. Some small country your route your shipment through changes requirements? Broken.

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Re:IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – ... by Xelbair on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:15AM (#26036513)

This wasn't about shipments, but about either transaction log, or property deed ownership system controlled by government.

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