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Bitcoin is based on a blockchain process, but other applications could be as well. Blockchain exists as a separate concept. Not unreasonable to expect companies
by kitd 10y ago
Bitcoin is based on a blockchain process, but other applications could be as well. Blockchain exists as a separate concept. Not unreasonable to expect companies to commercialise it.
- rspeer 10y agoSure, but when you take out all the parts they don't want, what they want to commercialize is "a database".
- ebuchman 10y agoThe focus is more on commercializing multi-stake-holder database replication, which is a more complicated problem than just "database" or "database replication", and is where Byzantine fault tolerant solutions apply. Hash-linked chain of blocks is just an optimization in that design space.