[diegocerdan]

Is utterly funny to read people's opinions bashing against blockchain technology and when asked about a simple definition they fail to mention the use of consensus protocols which was, already 10 years ago, the huge innovation that lead to this revolution.

[tomc1985]

Consensus protocols are nothing new. The novel part of blockchains is the actual blockchain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)

You're thinking of a distributed ledger, which combine blockchains with consensus protocols

[jon_richards]

I prefer the "proof of work != blockchain" comments when people include the most common consensus protocol in their simple description of blockchain.