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Anyone could win instantly by pointing out git. The hype is new, but not the concept.
by mkr-hn 5y ago
Anyone could win instantly by pointing out git. The hype is new, but not the concept.
- CRConrad 5y agoIs git fueled by superfluous energy-wasting (=environment-destroying) "proof of work"?!?
- ilikepi 5y agoThere's a decent amount of bike-shedding over which workflow is the best, and that is a sort of inefficient "fuel" for git as a tool at some level...
- Cederfjard 5y agoWhat definition do you have of blockchain tech that git fits into it?
- throwawaylinux 5y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain "A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked together using cryptography.[1][2][3][4] Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a timestamp, and transaction data (generally represented as a Merkle tree). [etc]" Do you have a definition that git doesn't fit into (without getting too pedantic, e.g., git being a DAG of records rather than a list)?
- exdsq 5y agoA blockchain can be a turing complete computer?
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI don't understand what your question is. Are you saying that all blockchains must be turing complete and that git isn't therefore it's not a blockchain?
- exdsq 5y agoI didn't mean it as a question. What I meant was that blockchains can be Turing complete and git doesn't have that level of sophistication as a system.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI didn't think blockchains had to be turing complete. What definition do you use that requires that? I can't see that the original bitcoin paper implies such a requirement, but maybe it can be derived somehow.
- exdsq 5y agoSure it wasn’t in Satoshis paper but most of the largest block chains are now essentially virtual machines and transactions can be arbitrary code written for those VMs, where the fee is the computational cost for the nodes to run that code.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoI still don't understand where this is going. If you're saying git is not a blockchain because it's not turing complete that means all blockchains must be turing complete. I don't think that is true.
- ted_dunning 5y agoHashing is not the same as blockchain.