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Re: Blockchain and Networking
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 10:54:10 -0500
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 10:22 AM, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:07 AM, John R. Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:The promise of blockchain is fraud-resistant recordkeeping, database management,
Hi Jimmy, That is -so- not the case. The single most important concept in fraud resistance is reversibility. Once a transaction is determined to be fraudulent, the authority making the determination must be able to reverse the transaction. Banks bouncing a check. The tax records office restoring ownership of a house upon order by the court. Blockchain's objective was to make transactions non-repudiable and they succeeded. However, that interacts with its decentralized nature to make those transactions irreversible as well. Bitcoins have been stolen from exchanges. The fraud can't be reversed. Blockchain is not resistant to fraud. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin () dirtside com bill () herrin us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
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- Re: Blockchain and Networking, (continued)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Christopher Morrow (Jan 09)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Jimmy Hess (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Brock Tice (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking John R. Levine (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Jimmy Hess (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking K. Scott Helms (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Christopher Morrow (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Christopher Morrow (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking valdis . kletnieks (Jan 24)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Anthony Kolka - Handy Networks LLC (Jan 24)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking William Herrin (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Michael O Holstein (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Mel Beckman (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking William Herrin (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Jean-Francois Mezei (Jan 23)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Peter Kristolaitis (Jan 08)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Christopher Morrow (Jan 09)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Hugo Slabbert (Jan 09)
- RE: Blockchain and Networking Naslund, Steve (Jan 09)
- Re: Blockchain and Networking Jean | ddostest.me via NANOG (Jan 09)
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