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by astrange 1317 days ago
A blockchain is a kind of transaction log, but if you evaluate all the transactions you get a database at the end.

A Google Docs spreadsheet also has a transaction log (a CRDT) while you have it open to do the updates. (Well, I assume it does, anyway.) Of course the security models are different, but you could say the log is a dual of the database.