minus-squareCenotaph@mander.xyztoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•17 years*linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down7·5 days agoImmutable so long as no one party or group owns more than half of the coins on a given blockchain… then the ledger is whatever they say it is and it propagates down because they can manufacture their own “consensus”. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp and most use cases around things like “smart contracts” end up still requiring a trusted third party at some point https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/30/the-inevitability-of-trusted-third-parties/ linkfedilink
Immutable so long as no one party or group owns more than half of the coins on a given blockchain… then the ledger is whatever they say it is and it propagates down because they can manufacture their own “consensus”.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/51-attack.asp
and most use cases around things like “smart contracts” end up still requiring a trusted third party at some point
https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/30/the-inevitability-of-trusted-third-parties/