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Yeah, basically everyone. "Blockchain" as commonly understood was brought into being by Bitcoin, and encapsulates far more than just a linked list with a crypto
by Nursie 4y ago
Yeah, basically everyone. "Blockchain" as commonly understood was brought into being by Bitcoin, and encapsulates far more than just a linked list with a cryptographic component.
If it doesn't contain a mechanism for trustless, distributed consensus, then it's not really a blockchain in the sense that HN or the wider industry understands it.
Your definition is wide enough to cover a lot of things that are well outside of normal discussion of blockchains. I'm not insinuating this is your goal, but it is a common argumentation tactic of people desperately trying to defend the sector, to widen the definition until they can include within it things like git, and then say "so of course blockchain tech is useful! You're using it!"