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10 check-ins related to "fossil-as-blockchain"
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2020-10-11
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| 06:51 | Greatly expanded the simple definition of "blockchain" in the eponymous doc to include more details of common blockchain implementations to draw clearer parallels. This causes our conclusion to flip around from the prior version of this doc, but it's worth keeping the doc because it serves to compare and contrast Fossil to other systems. ... (check-in: 1ddb4008 user: wyoung tags: trunk) | |
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2020-10-08
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| 08:48 | Drew better analogies between Bitcoin's answer to the 51% attack and to GitHub in the new Anonymity section of the blockchain doc to show that Fossil doesn't even try to provide the sorts of behavior that allow fully anonymous contribution to a blockchain. ... (Closed-Leaf check-in: 87b1385d user: wyoung tags: fossil-as-blockchain) | |
| 08:10 | Added a para to the prior section. ... (check-in: 69e0ea54 user: wyoung tags: fossil-as-blockchain) | |
| 08:00 | Added the "Anonymity" section to the new blockchain doc. ... (check-in: b357dc2b user: wyoung tags: fossil-as-blockchain) | |
| 06:42 | All but rewrote the Cryptocurrency section of the new blockchain.md doc to clarify the sorts of frauds each system has to prevent so that we can draw clearer analogies. ... (check-in: 154d848d user: wyoung tags: fossil-as-blockchain) | |
| 04:11 | Merged trunk changes in ... (check-in: 95203913 user: wyoung tags: fossil-as-blockchain) | |
| 04:11 | Added fragment identifiers to the new CAP theorem doc. ... (check-in: 991b0899 user: wyoung tags: trunk) | |
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2020-10-07
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| 00:29 | Removed several weak arguments from the blockchain.md doc and added a lot more info about cryptocurrencies to show the differences between them and Fossil. Tweaked much of the preexisting material. ... (check-in: 3d55f443 user: wyoung tags: fossil-as-blockchain) | |
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2020-10-05
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| 18:15 |
Recast the blockchain.md doc as "Is Fossil a Blockchain?" (answer:
mostly no) and updated all references to it to either remove the term,
use "repository" instead where that's sufficiently clear, or to say
either "Merkle tree" or "hash tree" instead where we need to distinguish
the hash tree itself from the rest of the repo DB file's contents. This
depends on the prior CAP theorem doc, since part of the argument for
Fossil not being a blockchain gets us down into those weeds.
EDIT: Moving it to a branch because we're still arguing the point on the forum. ... (check-in: 855578b6 user: wyoung tags: fossil-as-blockchain) | |
| 17:02 | Added a new doc, "Fossil and the CAP Theorem." It distills some good info from the forum, so we can just point at it instead of recapitulating it. But it's being checked in now because an upcoming commit will refer to it. ... (check-in: 3ddd56d0 user: wyoung tags: trunk) | |