blockchain

[me at jerrydaniels.com]

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I'll be coming up for air in a few days and able to discuss more with you then.

Best, Jerry

On Aug 16, 2016, 7:59 AM -0500, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>, wrote:
> Jerry, I'm interested, so please share, off list or on.
> Richard, think Delta Airlines outage. Blockchains don't just give you
> distributed storage, they give you distributed trust. Being cheap, I
> turned dropbox, and google spreadsheets, and Box, and a couple of other
> services into online data repositories, i.e. crude DBMS's, because I can do
> it on the cheap. But what if one or all of those go down? What if my pipe
> goes down? If I have my mobiles on the same network, and a blockchain,
> maybe I don't even need a central server. If I have a blockchain, maybe a
> cell phone that is on my network can be communicating with the outside
> world when the wifi or wired-only devices can't.
>
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:
>
> > Mike Kerner wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone thought about implementing something similar to a
> > > blockchain in LC? I've been noggining this for a long time,
> > > but I haven't gotten far enough to talk about it.
> >
> > What sort of application did you have in mind for this? And why
> > blockchain specifically over other types of distributed storage?
> >
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