You Do Not Need Blockchain: Popular Use Cases and Why They Do Not Work
Based on reading a few articles like this, I think my understanding of blockchain-related tech is different from other folks and I&#x27;m kinda confused. Could some kind soul help clear things up?<p>When I think &quot;blockchain&quot;, I basically think of a git branch: history is verifiably immutable and using some external tools like a public rng, one can prove that a block was not created before a certain time.<p>When I think &quot;distributed ledger&#x2F;distributed consensus&quot; I think of the practice of using basically properties of statistics to get a bunch of nodes to agree on the state of something.<p>Neither of those things really seem to make sense as the author&#x27;s definition of &quot;blockchain&quot;. What is he referring to?