Haha, this beginning was eerie to read: > We often called it distributed ledger technology because our platform didn't actually use chains of blocks or proof o

Haha, this beginning was eerie to read: > We often called it distributed ledger technology because our platform didn't actually use chains of blocks or proof of work, and it didn't have a token or anything like that. It was essentially a type of database but it had a lot of ideas from Bitcoin in it and was blockchainy enough that customers accepted it as such. because it was actually how I selected Corda as the infrastructure for a project a few years ago. The customers and managers wanted Blockchain®, and I wanted to deliver something that actually added some kind of value, and I found Corda which - as I told my CEO - was "close enough to a blockchain that our marketing splash wasn't lying". (Whereas to my fellow devs, I said more or less "look, it's Spring Boot with a replicated event-sourced database and a funny CLI admin panel") Unfortunately the project never got past the test stage because - this is gonna shock you - the very first, extremely basic smart contract we encoded in Corda was immediately violated by the customer's processes, and they absolutely refused to change. Still, I want to thank you because your platform enabled me to retain my dignity without pissing off my boss for a half year or so.