Comment on Web 3.0 is basically a webring
dotslashme@infosec.pub 1 week agoThe point about decentralization is absolutely the fediverse, however my shower thought is basically the second point, where the hyped technology known as blockchain really is only something old called linked lists, which basically is an object holding a reference to the next object in a chain (linked list) or a reference to the previous and next objects in the chain (double linked list). This is essentially how webrings worked.
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
It’s a little more than a linked list; it also has a cryptographically verifiable hash of the block contents, based on the hash of the previous block. That’s what makes it a verifiable ledger.
One of the main reasons to use linked lists is O(1) insertions and deletions; the point of a blockchain is to foil such insertions and deletions.