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Re:Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017) by klodolph on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:05PM (#28341062)
Wikipedia is, at best, an imperfect attempt to record and explain the accepted definition. I think that Wikipedia's definition of blockchain does not match usage, and therefore it is in error and should be corrected.
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Re:Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017) by schoen on Saturday August 28, 2021 @08:10PM (#28342739)
Have you encountered common usage that calls git a blockchain, as opposed to a DVCS or Merkle tree?
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Re:Do You Need a Blockchain? (2017) by klodolph on Sunday August 29, 2021 @02:30PM (#28349237)
This comment thread is the first time I have ever heard Git called a blockchain, in my memory. I have been using Git heavily since about 2007.
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