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> Cant you have blockchain based code control even in an open source system to ensure no nefarious business goes on - based on how others have exclaimed they do
by Qwertystop 8y ago
> Cant you have blockchain based code control even in an open source system to ensure no nefarious business goes on - based on how others have exclaimed they dont trust code for e-voting platforms... why cant this work.
That exists. Git was a blockchain before "blockchain" was a thing to hype.
- pdpi 8y agoAs somebody who works in the space, you've just hit a topic that annoys me to no end. The term "Blockchain" has a very specific meaning, and that is just a specific type of data structure (that also happens to be used in Git, as you describe). The whole meme around anything that's even remotely like a large scale distributed (not even decentralised, as Bitcoin is!) system being called a "blockchain" is literally worse than useless, because it has no precise meaning, and has robbed a word from a perfectly fine, well-defined meaning.
- samstave 8y agoAnd you're proving my point... if "blockchain" is so bad - why do I never hear any actual proposals for anything that is GOOD? STFU about blockchain and say someting of positive impact as opposed to constantly bitching about blockchain. I am not pushing blockchain, I am pointing out that people who "work in the space" clearly have nothing, else theyd stop saying "blockchain sucks!" and say "See, what you really want in a situation like this is..."
- samstave 8y agoif this "works" why hasnt it been embraced/shown as example? Your comment doesnt hold up to the evidence of history... https://xkcd.com/2030/ https://xkcd.com/2030/ AND https://xkcd.com/463/ https://xkcd.com/463/