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merkle tree is the underlining technology of blockchain And the most popular usable of merkle tree? Git.
by est 4y ago
merkle tree is the underlining technology of blockchain
And the most popular usable of merkle tree? Git.
- drewcoo 4y agoFor decades we've had cipher block chaining. Decades! I don't know why it's so special now. Please do not use authoritative use of git as a proof for the value of "crypto."
- jnwatson 4y agoDigital signatures is the underlying technology of blockchain. And the most popular use of digital signatures? Application integrity and authenticity. Git is a perfect answer why blockchain is almost never the answer. It implements an immutable distributed log, just without the mutually distrusting part, and does it for a millionth of the computational resources.