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Re:Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense by dbrgn on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:39AM (#31191307)
Sure, I just wanted to point out that building merkle hash trees, or blockchains, or whatever you want to call it, isn't "all rubbish". There are some valid use cases.
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Re:Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense by tsimionescu on Thursday April 28, 2022 @08:06AM (#31191506)
My point was that people who talk about blockchain typically refer to something other than a Merkle hash tree - they refer to a hash tree plus some consensus mechanism for trustless addition. I don't know of a term other than "blockchain" that can be used to refer to this concept.
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Re:Blockchain Is Dangerous Nonsense by mnd999 on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:35PM (#31207370)
It doesn’t even have to be trustless, some of this crap is using RAFT (for speed), the assumption being that the participants are all trusted.
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