Re:Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense
by paulgb on Thursday April 28, 2022 @05:17AM
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Although the summery description would seem to apply to git and mercurial, the detailed description under “structure” lists a number of features not present in those, like a PoW/PoS consensus mechanism.
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"Blockchain" is an append only ledger. It has nothing to do with proof of $foo.
Certificate Transparency is a blockchain that your browser queries for every website you visit.
We’re ultimately arguing semantics, but I think this is a pretty clear case where both conventional and academic usage of “blockchain” implies a consensus mechanism in addition to an append-only data structure. Certificate chains and Merkle trees existed long before the term blockchain was popularized.
You are conflating definitions to dismiss an otherwise useful, and at this point foundational, technology.
If you just don't like the name blockchain, we can call it Fluffernutterstructures.