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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/31
A nice discussion followed on [WayBack] Senior Oops Engineer on Twitter: “what’s a blockchain?” It’s like git but for destroying the environment.
It basically comes down to: can alternatives like git together with a set of rules and contracts to facilitate upstream pushing to a global order of changes be sufficient alternative to the very resource intensive “calculate proof of work to achieve consensus”.
The discussion is at [WayBack] »”what’s a blockchain?” It’s like git but for destroying the environment.« – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
References:
- [WayBack] whitequark on Twitter: you, sobbing: “you can’t just point at every thing using a merkle tree and call them blockchains” me, pointing at git: “blockchain”
- [WayBack] protip: if you write a pre-receive hook that checks if every commit hash has a given number of zeroes in the front you could have a proof-of-work enabled git repository
- [WayBack] whitequark on Twitter: for certain very narrow definitions of “work”
- [WayBack] TENSION MAX on Twitter: you, foolish: so, this new protocol, it uses a Merkle treeinvestors: (yawning)me, an intellectual: so, this new protocol, it uses a uh, non-proof-of-work blockchaininvestors: (throwing $1000 bills at the stage)
- [WayBack] How the Bitcoin protocol actually works | DDI
–jeroen
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