[hornytoad]

Datomic has a centralized transactor serializing what transactions, whereas Blockchain is decentralized. So they are at opposite ends of the spectrum, each trying to solve a completely different problem. Of course "centralized" is much less dramatic.

[jgalt212]

yes, I am aware of that, but many fintech start ups are using blockchain with centralized data stores.

and here's the link to byzantine generals' problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance#The_...