On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:37:47 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote:
> 
> Balderdash.
> 
> > The interlocking of artifacts by cryptographic hashes does seem very much
> > like the same idea as blockchain, which Wikipedia says was invented in
> > 2008. It is interesting that the first Fossil checkin was 21 July, 2007
> > (and the first git checkin was 7 April, 2005).
> 
> Hashed Double Linked Lists (blockchain) was invented in the 1950's.
> Just many of you are too young to remember your history.

I may actually be too old to remember! Do you happen to have a reference
for it? My actual point was that Fossil is now described as blockchain
when it predates what we (currently) call blockchain, and so do other similar
things.

Eric
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