Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
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Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#2Thanks for sharing, the code looks very elegant. This alone makes me want to sit down and learn Haskell.
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#3I had a brief look through, and it looks like there's no proof-of-work in the mining?
What stops somebody from rewriting history and passing it off as legitimate?
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#4Thanks for sharing, the code looks very elegant. This alone makes me want to sit down and learn Haskell.
Haskell is known for that
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#5I had a brief look through, and it looks like there's no proof-of-work in the mining? What stops somebody from rewriting history and passing it off as legitimate?
Nothing. It's a minimal blockchain.
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#6I had a brief look through, and it looks like there's no proof-of-work in the mining? What stops somebody from rewriting history and passing it off as legitimate?
Nothing. It's a minimal blockchain.
Correct, the goal for this was as minimal as possible.
However, if I (or anyone wanting to contribute) can come up with a very compact way to implement that, we could definitely add it!
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#7Thanks for sharing, the code looks very elegant. This alone makes me want to sit down and learn Haskell.
Thanks, you definitely should! It's very fun to write code in.
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#8... had this been written in a language less esoteric than Haskell, it would've been even better for the rest of us :)
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#9Of course there are name collisions everywhere, but, there's a metacomputing/grid computing/distributed OS thingie named "Legion" from the University of Virginia that has a bunch of papers about it in the CS literature.
Oh, and we saw off the American Legion threatening to sue us by saying "We're the State of Virginia, go right ahead..."; what's your strategy? :-)
Re: Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell
#10... had this been written in a language less esoteric than Haskell, it would've been even better for the rest of us :)
Almost exactly my thought every time I see something written in JS.