I try to also raise awareness of NIST's Blockchain Technology Overview, which is a good explainer: * https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/fina

I try to also raise awareness of NIST's Blockchain Technology Overview, which is a good explainer: * https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final See especially Figure 6 ("p. 42", 53 of the PDF), which is a flow chart to help you decide on whether blockchain may match one's use case. Extracted: * https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed https://imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed Generally you need the conditions of needing both (a) append-only log and (b) distributed/decentralized before considering blockchain 'technology'.