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There was this one guy, whom was a cryptocurrency fanatic but not a developer, who tried to convince me to get involved in a "blockchain code database for devel

There was this one guy, whom was a cryptocurrency fanatic but not a developer, who tried to convince me to get involved in a "blockchain code database for developers". I told him that Git uses a blockchain, and he simply couldn't accept that a blockchain has been used for years on something that isn't cool or possible to monetize. It's pretty funny how people still think that a blockchain is this magical thing, yet I'm pretty sure anyone on HN is capable of writing a blockchain in an an hour or two. Maybe even less than that.

prepend 6y ago
I have a funny story about how I told a colleague who was really into blockchain how I had updated our project to use a blockchain. I demo’d github and described the distributed features with pull requests and stuff “oracle-based mediation.” It was funny because this was maybe 3 years ago and had never heard about GitHub but had read all the blockchain literature.
spixy 6y ago
That reminds me how people wanted Wikipedia move to blockchain: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1226868636020805632 https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1226868636020805632 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22296659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22296659