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A git repository or a torrent or any other distributed datastore would also accomplish this. A blockchain is a very bad, expensive distributed datastore that yo

A git repository or a torrent or any other distributed datastore would also accomplish this. A blockchain is a very bad, expensive distributed datastore that you would only use if you need the specific trust properties it provides. It would be a fair point to say that if you don't trust any specific person or entity to verify that a given source compiles to the binary signed by the author that maybe some sort of blockchain would be useful. I think you'd get a lot more bang for your buck by using trusted authorities in something closer to a CA model.

sametmax 9y ago
The advantage of the blockchain is that we have well tested clients and api already, dealing with ID, logs and sync, with a huge number of nodes. And you do need trust for distributing software. You can't use git, it's hard to sync automatically. Torrent is a nice transport, not a db, and can be use to sync blockchains anyway, why make them exlusive ? And using any distributed db would exclude the field tested solution on millions of wallet that prove to work, and the api that is alreay well supported.