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> A blockchain is a worse database. It is slower, requires way more storage and compute, doesn’t have customer support, etc. Please Mr Albert Wenger. You are a
by timdaub 5y ago
> A blockchain is a worse database. It is slower, requires way more storage and compute, doesn’t have customer support, etc.
Please Mr Albert Wenger. You are a VC and not a technical expert on what is a database or a blockchain.
It makes absolutely no sense to compare a database to a blockchain. These things are completely different and have entirely nothing in common except that they persist data. You wouldn't compare a file to a database to make a point, would you? Also, you don't have the authority anyways to make that comparison as I doubt you know the technical details that differentiate a database from a blockchain.
Databases aren't blockchains and blockchains aren't databases. Stop comparing them for your ignorance's sake.
- weego 5y agoYes, he's talking about them at the level of abstraction that is 'things that persist data' You wouldn't compare a file to a database to make a point, would you? If the comparison fitted the abstraction level the conversation was at, absolutely. For most purposes that have ever been implemented on a blockchain, a database of some kind would just be a far superior persistance backend. The mistake is thinking that interesting underlying technology gives something de facto justification for existing in 'user' space when it does not.
- timdaub 5y agoFor me it's just cringe. Imagine a VC would start selling hash trees to programmers. That's the feeling that his blog post invokes.
- mad182 5y agoFile system is a database. Spreadsheet is a database. And surely blockchain is also a database.
- timdaub 5y agoI think you should adhere to the HN guidelines and not make such unsubstantiated claims.