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git is a blockchain

• School-Cotton 2y ago
  No it’s not. A blockchain is a Merkle tree whose canonical “master branch” is agreed upon by everyone and difficult or impossible to change (e.g. due to PoW or a similar mechanism). A git repository is just a Merkle tree.
  • ruined 2y ago
    a similar mechanism, like... a consensus mechanism? public key cryptography? some kind of content-based addressing? social convention and agreement on which fork to use? is it easy for you to go edit historical commits in the linux repo?
  • notpushkin 2y ago
    A Git repository is a Merkle tree whose canonical “master branch” is agreed upon by everyone and difficult or impossible to change (because people want to collaborate on a project). If you try to rewrite history and people don’t agree with you, they would just fork the project and get on with their day.
• deadbabe 2y ago
  Let me clarify: a global blockchain.