It seems that blockchain hype is beginning to encounter a bit of reality as exemplified by Matt Gault's recent posting. With one honourable exception this blogger, the OLTP Head, has never received proper answers to key questions on the whole technology but the following details are, he believes, widely accepted. Blockchains are based on an old data structure, the linked list, enhanced with some encryption technology and used to store transaction records for the transfer of d

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