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"we both keep records and compare when there's a problem" is literally exactly what blockchain consensus is an algorithmic version of.

• wpietri 6y ago
  Not at all. A blockchain requires a shared model. Everybody has to agree on what's stored. But the way it normally works is that each entity gets to do its own thing. E.g., if company A sends a package received by company B via shipper C, each one is going to keep their own records of what's going on. They don't have to agree at all on what gets kept when. There are specific, limited points of interaction. It's only if some problem occurs that everybody compares their individual records and reconciles them. That looks like waste to the "blockchain [jazz hands]" crowd. But it prevents other wastes. Like trying to get a whole industry to come to consensus on ontology and process. Or trying to comply with systems build around that fantasy process when local needs differ from the standards.