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NIST Answers Whether or Not You Really Need A Blockchain

posted by martyb on Friday October 12 2018, @07:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the Betteridge-knows-the-answer dept.

Mainframe Bloke writes:

This is a review by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) of the hype around blockchain. They conclude that most people, surprise surprise, don't need a blockchain. There is a very simple graphic of the flowchart and a summary of their report here:

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/dont-bother-with-blockchain-databases-or-even-email-could-be-better-513814

Enjoy the actual review here:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf

As usual, KISS wins the day.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:29PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @12:29PM (#747865)

    MongoDB is a NoSQL DB with sharding, which gives it those kickass performance metrics. Piping it to /dev/null makes it even faster. All of this puts the performance of Blockchain to shame. On a side note, nothing is more secure than /dev/null. Nothing. Not even Blockchain.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @01:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @01:01PM (#747875)

    You mean NoBrain database, right?

    Once upon a time databases had to be designed. Then somebody came up with sql databases that even a retard can design. But fear not - even that is too complicated for complete idiots so nosql concept was born.

    No wonder we can't get to space any more and soon the main American business will be a while liberal whore house network for Chinese customers.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @01:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @01:12PM (#747881)

      Tsk, tsk. Clearly you are not familiar with the truth about MongoDB. Feast your eyes [youtube.com] and maybe you'll learn something.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday October 12 2018, @01:01PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 12 2018, @01:01PM (#747877) Journal

    On a side note, nothing is more secure than /dev/null

    More secure? No.
    Equally secure? Plenty, any form of write-only memory will be as secure. monodic memory for instance.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @03:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 12 2018, @03:09PM (#747921)

    I ejaculated into your /dev/null.