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Hi, thanks for the thoughts. For "why would I want to use this over a SQL alternative" see [2]. For "what kind of applications can I build with this?" see [1][2][3][4]. Cheers! [1]…

As you'll see in my other comments (and articles on it), "blockchain" is better described as a field with a set of related goals for technology artifacts, rather than a specific da…

"Truth" of course is a red herring. "Claim" is better. And, "digitally signed claim" is better yet. Then to answer your Q: a good sharding approach should let you see all digitally…

Many people disagree about what blockchain technology is. To me, it' about the characteristics, rather than how they're implemented. I see three characteristics: decentralized, imm…

To me, "blockchain-like" is about getting the benefits of decentralized, immutability (tamper-resistance), and assets. How one goes about getting those characteristics is wide open…

> How does this solution respond to someone spinning up a thousand nodes, and simply voting for their double spend attack? This is the classic "Sybil attack". But I bet you knew th…

You're welcome! :) Also, I encourage you to try out BigchainDB. Within just a few seconds you can send your first transaction to IPDB (BigchainDB public net): https://www.bigchaind…

Thanks for responding to this query as well. Fully agreed:) BTW we work closely with the Ripple folks (especially on Interledger Protocol) and the iota folks (they're also in Berli…

Thank you:) Even if there's hype and critique, we can always rise above and maintain our integrity as we build things that matter.

+1 :)

Hey Tony, great to hear from you! Yes please do check this out, we think it's interesting too:) Also interesting is BigchainDB's sister project www.oceanprotocol.com. Cheers!

I should also mention that we've been working on supporting a BFT option. It should be out in the next release or two. https://github.com/bigchaindb/bigchaindb/blob/master/docs/ro.…

Re (2): this would be a group of people or organizations running nodes together. (If it was just nodes you controlled it misses the point of being decentralized.) You could store s…

Oh cool! Thanks for the ping, Dean. I hope you're well. Yeah blockchain space is a bit crazier than EDA, but some of us are engineers bringing our discipline and experience to this…

Neither sharding nor encryption give "decentralized", "immutable", or "assets". E.g. how many sysadmins can MySQL have? (And the answer is 1. Hence, not decentralized.)

I'm not defining "decentralized" as simply "distributed between multiple corporations, where multiple people have read/write access". To be "decentralized", it's key that there are…

Good point! I think the Python folks made a great design choice there. I updated my comment above to help future readers.

OK! :)

Good point - BigchainDB wraps MongoDB, which is in C++. I updated my comment above to help future readers.

Hi, it's Trent here, CTO of BigchainDB. That's a great question. It's surprising how few people are aware of the current German data protection laws (where we're based) and the upc…

Hi, it's Trent here, the CTO of blockchain. > I know. I think if I read "scalable" and "blockchain" in the same sentence again I'll scream. I acknowledge the hype out there. FYI we…

I totally acknowledge that there are pros and cons for both dynamically and statically typed languages. (We could start a 10 page discussion here. But I've been there before, perha…

(Hi, it's Trent here, CTO of BigchainDB.) We can do a lot better than the scale of Bitcoin. And we are. Scale is part of the point. And you don't need to centralize to get scale. W…

Hi, Trent here, CTO of BigchainDB. Correct, traditional blockchains like Bitcoin aren't scalable. The whole point of BigchainDB is to bring scale to (the database part) of the bloc…