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But then you have nothing new. Hash chains are at least as old as a 1981 Lamport paper, and merkle trees (the data structure inside a blockchain block) were pa
by jnwatson 9y ago
But then you have nothing new. Hash chains are at least as old as a 1981 Lamport paper, and merkle trees (the data structure inside a blockchain block) were patented in 1979.
- wmf 9y agoI'm not talking about hash chains. I'm talking about systems like Corda, Quorum, or Hyperledger that use BFT to provide mostly-trustless consensus without POW.