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by judge2020 1422 days ago
In case you didn't know, Git is effectively blockchain. It's just that 'breaking' the chain/rewriting history is as simple as `git push --force` and other clients can accept the rewritten history with `git reset origin/<branch> --hard`. Blockchain is (more) useful when artificial scarcity isn't involved.
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Blockchain means there is also a consensus mechanism. That’s the whole point: resolving conflicts.

Git is basically a Merkel Tree, but not a blockchain.