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ed: "consensus-driven publicly-auditable append-only database" is actually a pretty decent generalization of "crypto", thanks.

• jrm4 5y ago
  Is "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 ago
    A 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 ago
      Basically Git(hub)
  • infogulch 5y ago
    Other 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.