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That's pretty much what Google announced today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12784295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12784295 (Certificate Trans
by hannob 10y ago
That's pretty much what Google announced today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12784295 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12784295
(Certificate Transparency is basically a Blockchain. And this may be one of the few cases where a blockchain-like technology actually makes sense.)
- schoen 10y agoBen Laurie, who co-invented CT, claims not to favor blockchains (especially with proof-of-work), e.g. http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf He seems to have argued that CT's log works on different principles, although surely it's influenced by all of the revitalized consensus work that's happened after the Bitcoin paper.