I actually use this analogy in my own thinking. I think there are for sure similarities although I say this without having read any crypto white papers. In my

I actually use this analogy in my own thinking. I think there are for sure similarities although I say this without having read any crypto white papers. In my mind at least, blockchain is probably a stricter subset of the git feature set (no git push --force, only git commit -a -m is allowed, and probably a much more strict process to merge PRs to the master branch). There's probably a built in verification and mirroring aspect as well. In my mind, blockchain is a very strict, application specific implementation of git for finance.