”The utility of a term of art for any piece of software that includes two of the most common concepts in computer science (hashing, linked data structures) is j

”The utility of a term of art for any piece of software that includes two of the most common concepts in computer science (hashing, linked data structures) is just bad classification. This includes such a vast category of software to make the term meaningless...” ”For the last 10 years a whole cottage industry has arisen trying answer the question: Is blockchain useful for anything but gambling? After about $30b in sunk investment and a 0% success rate the industry finally has the answer: NO” On the contrary, DLT, or distributed ledger technology, is a new kind of primitive and extraordinarily useful. See https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/ https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/ Consider the contrast in that overview with what’s usually bucketed as blockchain.