If you want to be pedantic, git isn't a block-chain so much as a tree. But more importantly, git isn't what people usually think about when they hear block-cha

If you want to be pedantic, git isn't a block-chain so much as a tree. But more importantly, git isn't what people usually think about when they hear block-chain. The irony is that it's probably a good example of how such systems can contribute value to society through decentralisation. Normally, when people hear "block-chain", they think of the bitcoin-flavoured public append-only ledger where forking and merging aren't a thing, conflicts get resolved via proof of work with some built-in cryptocurrency. Those are, almost exclusively, "dangerous nonsense"