[mike_hearn]

I think your interpretation is fine :) Maybe I was aiming for a fully generalized decentralized database, but in the end there's probably too many finance or business-specific concepts in the core model to really deserve the title. At least in Corda 4.

And I should have given you more credit in my post, apologies for that. Indeed Corda has successful 'blockchain' projects where other platforms often don't, largely because of your rigorous problem-definition-first mentality that kept us seeing Bitcoin/Ethereum as a bag of useful ideas rather than a template that we had to follow. It was a great collaboration which I enjoyed a lot, and the platform was very fundamentally shaped by your efforts and insights!

[gendal]

No need to layer on the flattery... I was hand-waver in chief (and like to think I did a good job in bringing people with us and creating the space for you and the team to work without too much distraction and noise), but it was you who actually brought all the pieces together into a coherent platform. There was nothing in your post I disagreed with!