[danblick]

Ya know, Radia Perlman has decades of experience working on networking protocols, I'm willing to bet she understands blockchain as well as anybody. The statement "I cannot distinguish exactly what makes something blockchain technology" should probably translate as "currently the term 'blockchain' is thrown about so loosely its meaning is obscure."

[0xC0DECAFE2020]

I think it really pertains to using merkle trees. If you take a deep look into how bitcoin actually is implemented merkle trees are the base with which it is formed around.

[subway]

This. 1000x. The beautiful thing is if you approach the conversation as one about a merkle tree built on a consensus algorithm, while avoiding the term 'blockchain', it's still possible to get folks excited about the tech.

[dreamfactored]

> folks

The subset who have CS degrees maybe