Patrick Ryan Lane
It's a dangerous business Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road and if you don't keep your feet there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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From Why Blockchain is Hard by Jimmy Song
The main thing distinguishing a blockchain from a normal database is that there are specific rules about how to put data into the database. That is, it cannot conflict with some other data that’s already in the database (consistent), it’s append-only (immutable), and the data itself is locked to an owner (ownable), it’s replicable and available. Finally, everyone agrees on what the state of the things in the database are (canonical) without a central party (decentralized).