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Well not exactly. The blockchain is distributed and you effectively can’t modify it (let’s not get into 51% attacks etc) A centralised database is controlled a
by ssss11 5y ago
Well not exactly. The blockchain is distributed and you effectively can’t modify it (let’s not get into 51% attacks etc)
A centralised database is controlled and modifiable by the owner - government, private company or whoever. They will act on their best interest not yours.
I don’t personally have a problem with government having my dat although they’re usually useless at implementing technology, but a decentralised blockchain would be way more trustworthy than private companies..
- 908087 5y agoIf the problem you have with the web is that "the government has your data", putting it on a public blockchain certainly isn't going to solve that problem.
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- aforwardslash 5y agoBlockchain is not necessarily "distributed", in the sense that multiple competing parties have a copy of it. As an example, hyperledger fabric is commonly used as a "private" blockchain. Also, it is trivial to implement the same verification mechanisms in traditional databases, without the performance penalties of "blockchain", and transforming them in immutable, append-only storage systems that can't be tampered transparently. A good example of this is google trillian, the backend used by Certificate Transparency implementations.