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0 pointsDanielBMarkham7y ago0 comments

Is there a need for high throughput in some domain?

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ajkjk7y ago

Yes? Name any domain and there's somebody who wants high-throughput auditable transactions in it.

DanielBMarkhamOP7y ago

From a centralized source?

So sure. Voting. Wouldn't it be great to have an auditable trail?

But why would you then go and put all of that in one spot?

Wouldn't a better approach be reconfiguring the tech to work in a faster fashion?

EGreg7y ago

I also don’t get it. Auditable trail? Use a Merkle DAG. Or something like this Permissionless Timestamping Network: https://intercoin.pdf/whitepaper.pdf

I mean how hard is it? What are the real challenges?

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ajkjk7y ago

Why wouldn't you put it all in one spot? The technical requirement of needing an audit table is ubiquitous and I bet almost every SQL database in history eventually ends up having a history table of some sort. This technical requirement is unrelated to any regulatory requirements about (not) storing data in the cloud, and certainly shouldn't be coupled to it.

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ajkjk7y ago

Yes? Name any domain and there's somebody who wants high-throughput auditable transactions in it.

DanielBMarkhamOP7y ago

From a centralized source?

So sure. Voting. Wouldn't it be great to have an auditable trail?

But why would you then go and put all of that in one spot?

Wouldn't a better approach be reconfiguring the tech to work in a faster fashion?

EGreg7y ago

I also don’t get it. Auditable trail? Use a Merkle DAG. Or something like this Permissionless Timestamping Network: https://intercoin.pdf/whitepaper.pdf

I mean how hard is it? What are the real challenges?

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ajkjk7y ago

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