Comment by officialchicken 4 days ago > unmodifiable blockchainAhhh, this old trope. Fork it - trivial to do when you have consensus. 2 comments officialchicken Reply sebastiennight 4 days ago I don't even understand what an "unmodifiable blockchain" held by a single private entity could mean.They- have the data of yesterday- have backups of the data of yesterday- are going to write today's data on top of it to continue the chain(insert magic here)- somehow we are super sure, tomorrow, that today's data has not been tampered withIf somebody can shine some light on the magic part, I'm interested onraglanroad 4 days ago The point isn't that you can't add bad data: obviously you can.The point is that if the hashes of the blocks are published, you can't later go back and tamper with that data.
sebastiennight 4 days ago I don't even understand what an "unmodifiable blockchain" held by a single private entity could mean.They- have the data of yesterday- have backups of the data of yesterday- are going to write today's data on top of it to continue the chain(insert magic here)- somehow we are super sure, tomorrow, that today's data has not been tampered withIf somebody can shine some light on the magic part, I'm interested onraglanroad 4 days ago The point isn't that you can't add bad data: obviously you can.The point is that if the hashes of the blocks are published, you can't later go back and tamper with that data.
onraglanroad 4 days ago The point isn't that you can't add bad data: obviously you can.The point is that if the hashes of the blocks are published, you can't later go back and tamper with that data.
I don't even understand what an "unmodifiable blockchain" held by a single private entity could mean.
They
- have the data of yesterday
- have backups of the data of yesterday
- are going to write today's data on top of it to continue the chain
(insert magic here)
- somehow we are super sure, tomorrow, that today's data has not been tampered with
If somebody can shine some light on the magic part, I'm interested
The point isn't that you can't add bad data: obviously you can.
The point is that if the hashes of the blocks are published, you can't later go back and tamper with that data.