Google Is Working on Its Own Blockchain-Related Technology(bloomberg.com)
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Google Is Working on Its Own Blockchain-Related Technology
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/google-is-said-to-work-on-its-own-blockchain-related-technology
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Google has been experimenting with and deploying blockchain technology since before 2013. Certificate Transparency[0], designed at Google, stores certificates in a distributed merkle tree. Any certificate that Chrome accepts as valid is stored in the certificate transparency merkle tree.
[0]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962
[0]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6962
Well it may be splitting hair but there is no proof or work and the number of nodes is certainly smaller.
There is also CONIKS and Google's Key Transparency.
This comes to my mind: https://medium.com/@bbc4468/centralized-vs-decentralized-vs-...
There is also CONIKS and Google's Key Transparency.
This comes to my mind: https://medium.com/@bbc4468/centralized-vs-decentralized-vs-...
I feel like I'm the only one that is super tired of all this blockchain junk. Just like any other tech, you can't solve everything with it.
Bloomberg is notorious for publishing (In my opinion) low-quality blockchain articles. This one, for example, failed to clearly explain why blockchains would take the company to the next level. It also wasn't clear if this was one team's aspirations or a serious strategic direction for the company.
Bloomberg never fails to deliver garbage on this subject.
Bloomberg never fails to deliver garbage on this subject.
Can someone please explain why a PAXOS[1] solution isn't sufficient and a blockchain is required when all the infrastructure and software is owned and controlled by a single company?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_(computer_science)
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So, in other words, a few engineers are allegedly messing around on the side with blockchain code. There is no announcement or official plan to use it. And two or more Google employees have stated (at some point) that blockchain nodes work well on cloud servers.
Bloomberg does a lousy job at news, but a great job at making crypto look bad to its readers. This article is a great exhibit for people to point to and say that blockchain is a hype bubble. Don't be fooled by the fake news.