[tantalor]

Exactly what does "immutable" mean here?

[dragonwriter]

The natural interpretation would be that entries once posted could not be changed.

Reading the page, that's exactly it; journal entries are an append-only log.

[timemachine]

Rows in the database are never updated or deleted. Only new rows are added.

[Animats]

A blockchain could be used to enforce that immutability. Which might be an actual, useful application for blockchains.

[Scarblac]

By itself a block chain just stores hash with each block, they could be recomputed after a change. Just like how Git history can be changed.

Unless you're talking about a distributed public no-trust ledger, yes that can be solved with block chain as it's what Bitcoin is. But that's not a problem they're having.

[chris_wot]

Sure, but that’s only needed in a purely distributed environment. There is absolutely no need for a blockchain in a centralised private database you have full control over.

[mateuszf]

> A blockchain could be used to enforce that immutability. Which might be an actual, useful application for blockchains.

Yes, and surprisingly the implementation is called Bitcoin ;)