Hyperledger is just git but with fancy buzzwords. It’s like taking everything that makes blockchain, and then remove everything that makes blockchain special. All you have left is another centralized system.
That’s an incredibly wrong oversimplification.
Git doesn’t have any consensus mechanisms, chaincode execution or ledger, is just a history tracker & manipulator. Neither Git or Hyperledger fabric are centralized, they’re both distributed.
Just because it’s used for specialized tasks and distributed only within a select few instead of being a big inefficient permissionless PoW/PoS craptocurrency blockchain doesn’t make it any less of a blockchain with smartcontacts and works.
Git doesn’t need consensus mechanisms because it’s “permissioned”, like Hyperledger. All actors are known and given permission by some entity to contribute.
You can’t contribute to the Linux kernel unless your changes have been approved by someone trusted with permission. You cannot contribute to whatever Walmart is doing, because you haven’t acquired permission to do so.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Walmarts proprietary food tracking blockchain.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 3 months ago
Hyperledger is just git but with fancy buzzwords. It’s like taking everything that makes blockchain, and then remove everything that makes blockchain special. All you have left is another centralized system.
It’s just IBM’s excuse to stay relevant.
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s an incredibly wrong oversimplification.
Git doesn’t have any consensus mechanisms, chaincode execution or ledger, is just a history tracker & manipulator. Neither Git or Hyperledger fabric are centralized, they’re both distributed.
Just because it’s used for specialized tasks and distributed only within a select few instead of being a big inefficient permissionless PoW/PoS craptocurrency blockchain doesn’t make it any less of a blockchain with smartcontacts and works.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 3 months ago
Git doesn’t need consensus mechanisms because it’s “permissioned”, like Hyperledger. All actors are known and given permission by some entity to contribute.
You can’t contribute to the Linux kernel unless your changes have been approved by someone trusted with permission. You cannot contribute to whatever Walmart is doing, because you haven’t acquired permission to do so.
Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How is that better than a database? Is someone concerned that Walmart will fabricate supply chain tracking?
Rustmilian@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There prior database lacked transparency & real-time tracking making tracing take days.
Pizza_Rat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Interesting! Thanks for elaborating.