Totally agree you do not need a blockchain. Its just one class of implementations. There are others like Apache Zookeeper, or even just roll your own.
Also really appreciate you engaging with me on the topic. I’m currently working on a federated product (business to business). Blockchains have come up (private chain), so I’m trying to convince myself it brings something to the table as a framework by arguing from the other side.
Verifying who said what is the major concern we are trying to solve. Everyone having a copy of the data is also preferred so each business pays for their own read usage.
Verifying who is who is pretty much solved using traditional PKI with certificates. The what is said is less of a concern so long as we know who said it. The whats in our use case are not digital assets.
We are looking at it like pub/sub kafka-like framework with complete history intact that is immutable without needing to dedicate resources to rolling our own. Co-operators have something to gain by working together (long term) but can also gain by screwing each other over (short term).
Tendermint/Cosmos has been looking pretty attractive as a private chain with ~1s commits (no mining). 67% of the nodes must agree on who signed a message and the order the messages were seen to commit it to the next block. So far its seeming pretty convenient for what we are looking for.
Totally agree you do not need a blockchain. Its just one class of implementations. There are others like Apache Zookeeper, or even just roll your own.
Also really appreciate you engaging with me on the topic. I’m currently working on a federated product (business to business). Blockchains have come up (private chain), so I’m trying to convince myself it brings something to the table as a framework by arguing from the other side.
Verifying who said what is the major concern we are trying to solve. Everyone having a copy of the data is also preferred so each business pays for their own read usage.
Verifying who is who is pretty much solved using traditional PKI with certificates. The what is said is less of a concern so long as we know who said it. The whats in our use case are not digital assets.
We are looking at it like pub/sub kafka-like framework with complete history intact that is immutable without needing to dedicate resources to rolling our own. Co-operators have something to gain by working together (long term) but can also gain by screwing each other over (short term).
Tendermint/Cosmos has been looking pretty attractive as a private chain with ~1s commits (no mining). 67% of the nodes must agree on who signed a message and the order the messages were seen to commit it to the next block. So far its seeming pretty convenient for what we are looking for.