Consensus protocols are nothing new. The novel part of blockchains is the actual blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science) https://en.w

Consensus protocols are nothing new. The novel part of blockchains is the actual blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science) You're thinking of a distributed ledger, which combine blockchains with consensus protocols