Forget about cryptocurrencies, we probably feel the same way about all that.
If you want to run a database to store whatever, the person/entity running the database has superpowers: they can alter the data, take down the whole thing, etc.
Blockchain is a database where no single person/entity has privileged access.
That’s it. As a distributed system person this is cool. Everyone else might shrug. I’m ok with that.
This is a new paradigm and opens new possibilities. Remains to be seen what we do with it.
Forget about cryptocurrencies, we probably feel the same way about all that.
If you want to run a database to store whatever, the person/entity running the database has superpowers: they can alter the data, take down the whole thing, etc.
Blockchain is a database where no single person/entity has privileged access.
That’s it. As a distributed system person this is cool. Everyone else might shrug. I’m ok with that.
This is a new paradigm and opens new possibilities. Remains to be seen what we do with it.