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Everyone uses Git by day and then moans how blockchain in not useful by night. Specific technologies have specific applications. Blockchains in general - immut

• simonw 4y ago
  We understand the difference between a proof-of-work/stake/waste blockchain and a merkel tree. Do you?
• Nursie 4y ago
  If we're including git in 'blockchain' now then that changes the nature of the discussion. But we both know that systems like git are not what's being talked about here. > Just use given technology for what it’s designed for, and stop being full of yourself. The point is that there has been hype after hype after hype about "blockchain" revolutionising damn near everything for years and so far it has failed to deliver on this. It's not wrong to call the phenomenon out for what it is.
• arnoooooo 4y ago
  The double standard you mention is actually created by the Blockchain advocates. Git does not include a distributed consensus algorithm. So it's a chain of blocks, but not a "Blockchain". Blockchain advocates will gladly tell you so when they want to sell you on how revolutionary Blockchain tech is. But once you ask for actually useful use cases, all they can point to is things that are trivially done with Git and its predecessors, in the sense that they don't require distributed consensus…