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by Cycl0ps 1635 days ago
The blockchain model is designed to be immutable, a block of transactions are locked in place by the blocks before and after it. A traditional database structure wouldn't have that form of baked-in security, though I'm sure there are other models that could work.
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You, that’s the word I was looking for. There are solutions out there which achieve similar objective. It’s like they the benefits of blockchain are being used for bitcoin, but if you designed one with bitcoin in mind, there is efficient solution there.