• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It has one legitimate use case that I can think of. Immutable audit logs, even then there are better options.

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      6 months ago

      so in practice it actually doesn’t, and enterprise “blockchain” systems tend to evolve:

      1. do the real work in the blockchain bit
      2. do the real work in a program with an SQL database attached, claim the blockchain is for audit logs
      3. every SQL DB can produce those anyway, remove the blockchain bit entirely
      4. don’t bother removing the word “blockchain” from your marketing copy

      multiple such cases!

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        6 months ago

        exactly, like I said, there is only 1 thing it could be used for, but there are better options for that anyway.

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      5 months ago

      Careful not to conflate things like hash trees with Blockchains. The former do get used for stuff like certificate transparency logs right now, because it is a sensible technology. Blockchains could do exactly the same thing (because they’re based on the same underlying principle), only with much more expense and waste, so there’s basically no point.