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Well, I think "crypto" here means "universally viewable and add-only modifiable" database which feels like there might be a use for?
by jrm4 5y ago
Well, I think "crypto" here means "universally viewable and add-only modifiable" database which feels like there might be a use for?
- infogulch 5y agoed: "consensus-driven publicly-auditable append-only database" is actually a pretty decent generalization of "crypto", thanks.
- jrm4 5y agoIs "consensus-driven" that necessary? I'm thinking how one might argue that it's fundamentally an implementation detail of "append-only," meaning that you don't really have to say it out loud, like "electricity-driven" or "cryptography-powered."
- jtolmar 5y agoA centralized database operating off a write-once-read-many drive would be append-only and not consensus-driven, and also not really what anyone means by crypto. A whole lot more efficient though.
- danhor 5y agoBasically Git(hub)
- infogulch 5y agoOther people have to agree on what you put in there. There are rules. It's not an append-only buffer of arbitrary bytes that everyone is forced to replicate for no reason.