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Is Git on a block chain?

• shuntress 4y ago
  Each commit is hashed as a block that includes the hash of the previous commit, so, yes. Though, to be more accurate, you would say thay each "repository" is a block chain rather than say that Git is "on" a block chain.
• HideousKojima 4y ago
  It is a blockchain. It's different from Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. in that it doesn't use a trustless consensus method. And that's literally the only situations where cryptocurrencies make sense, situations where you need to be able to operate with zero trust of the other party/parties. Turns out those situations are a lot rarer than crypto advocates claim, and even when such situations exist crypto is actually pretty limited in how much it can do/solve.
• dghlsakjg 4y ago
  The underlying data structure for a blockchain and git is a merkle tree. So by some looser definitions, yes.