• yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s crypto, you can’t understand it unless you already believe in it.

    From the outside, blockchain looks like a spread sheet that’s so difficult to edit, you have to turn it into a slot-machine to incentivize people to try. But I don’t understand blockchain.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes, informed simplicity is the right way to go. I know more than I’d like to know about blockchain, and you pretty much nailed it. You could fancy the words up and call it an “append-only database”