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Any sort of financial account should be ACID safe. You can't just receive money on one end, and then it magically doesn't enter a client's account. Bitcoin is
by AJ007 13y ago
Any sort of financial account should be ACID safe. You can't just receive money on one end, and then it magically doesn't enter a client's account.
Bitcoin is great, but the exchanges still suck.
- davedx 13y agoExcept things like ATMs are not. They use eventual consistency.
- remon 13y agoVery few financial systems are ACID. Why do people still think banks run on bloody MySQL?
- lotsofcows 13y agoI love a non-sequitur as much as the next giraffe, but what does banks using MySQL have to do with banks choosing not to go ACID?
- remon 13y agoNothing at all other than the ever surfacing assumption by a lot of people that financial traffic is done on ACID like principles (rather than eventual consistency which it actually is). MySQL was a random example as should have been somewhat obvious.
- lotsofcows 13y agoMySQL is a random example of financial traffic not following ACID principles? I still don't understand. Is this a reference to MySQL, pre-InnoDB, not being ACID compliant? InnoDB's been around for a decade and has been the default database engine for years.