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Re:There aren't that many uses for blockchains by rkachowski on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @01:43PM (#41312466)
it's pretty much the exact same principle, the chain of hashed commit contents being part of the input to the next commit in the branch have the same property
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Re:There aren't that many uses for blockchains by dsevil on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @03:56PM (#41313614)
That's ONE of the linchpins of cryptocurrency, yes. Git has that part.

Someone else mentioned consensus which is orthogonal. Git does not have that part.

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