alt Hacker News99% of the time (and all 3 times in the blog post), there is only one source of truth for any piece of data, and state transitions are completely arbitrary. Blockchain is almost always the wrong solution.
99% of the time (and all 3 times in the blog post), there is only one source of truth for any piece of data, and state transitions are completely arbitrary. Blockchain is almost always the wrong solution.
> Blockchain is almost always the wrong solution.
Especially since in most of the cases where it's not-totally-insane to use, the right solution is still the classic distributed database which already existed. In those, the ledger is kept among a predefined/controlled node-membership... as opposed to a bloated mass of workarounds and limitations to make it barely survive being ungovernable.
I've seen some boosters pivot to saying "private blockchain is good", but that's contradictory buzzword nonsense. It's like selling a blog as "single-user Twitter" or advertising a regular car as "user-controlled autonomous vehicle."