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0 pointsskybrian4y ago0 comments

Isn't that a Merkle tree? "Blockchain" is not commonly used for what git does.

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"Block chaining" is absolutely used to refer to that concept in cryptography, and pre-dates cryptocurrency.

Correct. Block cipher, block list, block chain, block vector, array of blocks -- I'm sure you can find them all decades ago.

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0 pointsskybrian4y ago0 comments

Isn't that a Merkle tree? "Blockchain" is not commonly used for what git does.

"Block chaining" is absolutely used to refer to that concept in cryptography, and pre-dates cryptocurrency.

Correct. Block cipher, block list, block chain, block vector, array of blocks -- I'm sure you can find them all decades ago.

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