Don't bother with blockchain: databases or even email could be better National Institute of Standards report says it isn't magic and isn't immutable either. Juha Saarinen itNews Oct 11 2018 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/dont-bother-with-blockchain-databases-or-even-email-could-be-better-513814
The United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalised its report on blockchain distributed ledger technology and suggested that there are very few use cases to which it should be applied. ... Isn't it nice to know that link subscribers heard it a year before NIST did: To: [email protected] From: Roger Clarke <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LINK] Blockchain Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:39:48 +1100 >On 20/09/17 17:46, Jan Whitaker quoted: >> ... Blockchain is the most important innovation in a century. At 8:51 +1000 22/9/17, Tom Worthington wrote: >Blockchain is not the most important innovation this century, let alone in a >century. An alternative view is that blockchain is a short-term fad: http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/BCD.html Steve Wilson published his sceptical pieces 4 months before I wrote mine (but I didn't find his papers until after I'd finished): http://theconversation.com/blockchain-really-only-does-one-thing-well-62668 http://lockstep.com.au/blog/blockchain -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
