Stream: blockchain
Topic: Use block chain
Grahame Grieve (Nov 22 2017 at 12:02):
A simple decision tree to help you understand when to use block chain:
Grahame Grieve (Nov 22 2017 at 12:02):
http://philippe.ameline.free.fr/wordpress/?p=1979
Doug Bulleit (Nov 22 2017 at 18:19):
Grahame, much truth passes in jest notwithstanding, the uber-simple decision tree in the above BLOG speaks to widely-held misapprehensions that Blockchains are blockchains are blockchains. Perhaps this diagram would be a little more useful if it depicted one more question/branch reading something like "Are you creating a cryptocurrency OR are you trying to solve a real business problem?" And the subtending branches would then respectively flow toward very different kinds of permissionless and permissioned blockchains.
A "real business problem" that Decentralized Ledger Technology (DLT, aka, a permissioned blockchain) can be helpful in solving is how Trust can be built within a true P2P ecosystem. Case in point: inasmuch as some (not all) health systems and application providers may be interested in empowering self-sovereign Patients (and/or other end-users) to self-authenticate & authorize access to their own PHI, DLT can be overlayed upon OAuth/HEART to enable more extensible FHIR Resource-enabled uses case and business models.
Grahame Grieve (Nov 22 2017 at 22:53):
I posted it here because it's funny. Not serious....
Doug Bulleit (Nov 23 2017 at 01:08):
That's the way I took it: as "in jest;-)" But, I just couldn't resist the opportunity to take a swing at a serious question that we get with distressing regularity.
Anyway, I know that tomorrow is an American holiday: but I'll presume to speak for everyone on this board in voicing thanks for your tireless thought leadership
Grahame Grieve (Nov 23 2017 at 01:14):
yhanks
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