Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
by ninkendo on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:23AM
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Git (and any merkle tree) already implements a tamper proof linked list, there’s no reason to burn electricity in a proof of work algorithm to accomplish this.
Controlling who gets to put things in it in a decentralized way isn’t as important as many people think, at the end of the day almost all applications (other than currency) can just use a central authority to publish hashes.
Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
by midmagico on Monday April 10, 2023 @12:11AM
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Pardon me while I git push -f..
Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
by ninkendo on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:34AM
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You should probably reread git’s documentation if you think git push -f rewrites any commits. It doesn’t. It makes new commits and re-assigns the named branch to track the new commits you just pushed. It rewrites branch names, not commits.
It is impossible (without finding a SHA collision) to rewrite a commit in git.
And before you say “yeah but how do you know which SHA sums are the right one if you don’t trust branch names”, please reread the final paragraph of the post you replied to.
Re:The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
by chclt on Friday April 14, 2023 @05:48PM
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> Git (and any merkle tree) already implements a tamper proof linked list, there’s no reason to burn electricity in a proof of work algorithm to accomplish this.
Thats why the word "and" is there in my sentence
(Also implementing money on it does seem pretty intelligent -- its a scarcity device -- peoble just seem to do stupid stuff with it)