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Re:Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place by derangedHorse on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:11PM (#48648084)
What's your definition of a "regular" database? If you need a distributed, well-sequenced, auditable trail of cryptographically signed operations representing the transfer of value, that quite literally can be fit to match the definition of a blockchain.
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Re:Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place by colechristensen on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:44PM (#48648544)
People who haven't done it probably underestimate the incredible amount of fiddly nonsense is involved in actually writing accounting software to handle a ledger.

Banks and brokerages very often use software written 40 years ago because it's so much trouble to get correct.

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