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As far as I can tell from the article, they are using the same kind of technology which prevents people from falsifying their account balance on Bitcoin to prev
by woah 10y ago
As far as I can tell from the article, they are using the same kind of technology which prevents people from falsifying their account balance on Bitcoin to prevent intruders from covering their tracks in a secure computer system.
- tveita 10y agoSpecifically, it's a Merkle tree. From what I can tell they're not using anything else relating to "blockchains".
- sasas 10y agoThe signature for your data that has been signed is a chain of hashes which is used to calculate back to the merkle root. Wikipedia defintion of blockchain[1] > A blockchain consists of blocks that hold batches of valid transactions. Each block includes the hash of the prior block in the blockchain, linking the two. The linked blocks form a chain [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain_(database)
- vertex-four 10y agoThe very next paragraph describes blockchain databases as peer-to-peer protocols with some form of scoring algorithm to decide which blocks are part of the chain.
- bfuller 10y agoThis has now been answered by someone from the team