Hello,

I have been researching about blockchains and stuff and it all seems like a big scam. It’s not sustainable and can be replaced by a simple database.

is there any legitimate use cases of blockchains or it is all just a big scam?

  • msage@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    I would argue against blockchains being a database… its more of a ‘signed sequential log’ than a database.

    • mormund@feddit.org
      3·
      1 day ago

      Well, Wikipedia describes it sufficiently vague: “a database is an organized collection of data”. But is a linked list on its own a database? I’d say the blockchain itself is the data structure but any software using it is most likely a database.