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I can't help but feel you're cherrypicking from the Wikipedia definition to fit your own need. If you read past the summary to the actual meat of the article y
by CarelessExpert 5y ago
I can't help but feel you're cherrypicking from the Wikipedia definition to fit your own need.
If you read past the summary to the actual meat of the article you'll find that:
> A blockchain is a decentralized, distributed, and oftentimes public, digital ledger consisting of records called blocks that is used to record transactions across many computers so that any involved block cannot be altered retroactively, without the alteration of all subsequent blocks.
You've just admitted your solution is neither decentralized nor distributed. By no common definition does it meet the description of a "blockchain" and I genuinely wonder why you persist in using the term, as it's at best misleading.
It sure appears to be in service of pure marketing. Which, hey, marketing is necessary! I get that.
But, in the context of this conversation, citing your project as proof that blockchains have practical applications when it doesn't appear to use a blockchain in any meaningful sense strikes me as pretty disingenuous.
- mimixco 5y agoI assure you as a professional putting my business reputation on the line that nothing in any of our materials or claims is disingenuous. We're just not that kind of company. Caveat emptor, for sure. Like I said, the proof is always in the product itself much more than in anything I say. The Wikipedia article goes on to (incorrectly) attribute the blockchain to Nakamoto when the idea was well known in comp sci before Bitcoin showed up. Our use is, indeed, both decentralized and distributed. I mentioned earlier that the record of hashes is often kept offsite and can be used by a non-trusted third party (who doesn't have access to the documents) to perform the kind of document verification I'm talking about.