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Not going into the topic, just the discussion itself. I'm totally fine, hope you are too. I don't feel personally attacked at all. But on the internet a thick
by askmike 8y ago
Not going into the topic, just the discussion itself.
I'm totally fine, hope you are too. I don't feel personally attacked at all. But on the internet a thick skin is required. I hope you don't feel attacked either.
> Anyways, I'm still none the wiser as to why to use a "private blockchain" but I agree with you that we should stop.
That's unfortunate, I hope you do understand one day. I won't go into it now since you started with a different question (or technically an exercise). And after my lengthy attempt in explaining it you expressed that you don't actually care and instead ask questions about consensus algorithms used in different blockchains (like PoW and PoA) - which has nothing to do with why one uses a blockchain and not git.
So please next time if you are interested in something, don't start by asking something else. After that trying to steer the conversation towards your hidden objective all while you are accusing the other side of "moving the target" (you are moving the target from git towards consensus algorithms and blockchain use cases).
- Moodles 8y agoI hope I understand too. I hope blockchains become as useful as the hype suggests. But I bet my career on it that it won't. Let's set a reminder for 10 years and see what happens? :-) We could bake a bet into a smart contract. (Actually we probably couldn't.)
- askmike 8y agoHonestly I'm also quite skeptical, I share your view. Though I believe the deciding factors aren't very technical. For public projects it all depends on what people want (in reaction to government control, surveillance, financial and capital controls) And for private blockchains in my experience (in finance anyway) it all depends on the regulators and what they will allow. They are also reacting to whatever is happening in the world. Currently it all looks pretty bleak indeed.