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1. Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 23:03:35 CET Aral Balkan

   Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence

   “Though Blockchain has been touted as the answer to everything, a study of 43 solutions advanced in the international development sector has found exactly no evidence of success.”

   https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/30/blockchain_study_finds_0_per_cent_success_rate/

   Man, it seems so bad you’d almost think I’d have a slide warning people about blockchain oil salesmen (they’re almost entirely men) in my talks or something…

   #blockchain #bullshit

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz)'s status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 23:12:25 CET Adrian Cochrane

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     @aral When we don't try to shove proof of work, there's great success!

     Git! Certificate Transparency Logs! Etc.

     But it's quite questionable calling those blockchains.

   • Aral Balkan (aral)'s status on Friday, 30-Nov-2018 23:20:27 CET Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Adrian Cochrane

     @alcinnz Directed acyclic graphs and Merkle Trees are awesome. Blockchain and the right libertarians that fantasize about the billions they’ll make with it (often by literally destroying our habitat via proof of work) can fuck right off.