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@fabthefoxx SWIFT ist kein Protokoll. SWIFT ist kein Unternehmen im klassischen Sinne, insbesondere keines das man kaufen kann, aber sehr wohl eine Organisation (eine Genossenschaft um genau zu sein). Eine Organisation die ein Zahlungsnetzwerk betreibt und Standards (Protokolle) definiert.
As it is just software, I can remove all this things. Now I can double spend. It's still a blockchain. Because a blockchain is just a way to store data - nothing more.
The truly revolutionary thing that Satoshi introduced was not the blockchain, as this was already well known, but the combination with the proof of work, difficulty adjustment, and so on. All simple things on their own, but revolutionary in the way Satoshi combined them.
@rleder@notgrubles@peterktodd@0300dbdd1b@Guardtime These things (consensus building, decentralization, etc.) make Bitcoin unique, but have nothing to do with blockchain. I can run Bitcoin at home in isolation (without any decentralization), it then no longer has any of these amazing properties, but it is still a blockchain.
@rleder@notgrubles@peterktodd@0300dbdd1b@Guardtime Absolutely. But because each Git commit carries the hash of its parent commit and thus forms a chain. This is exactly the data structure that makes up a blockchain.