On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 09:56:04AM +0100, Caleb James DeLisle wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I figured this list would have enough blockchain enthusiests here
> that it would be worth mentioning this project. A few months ago
> I was tasked by XWiki SAS Research to develop a realtime
> collaborative editor which could do text, WYSIWYG and collaborative
> drawing. I decided to do it using a peer-to-peer consensus algorithm
> using a Nakamoto Blockchain with the difficulty/mining aspect removed.
>
> AFAIK this is the first application to use a blockchain which has
> nothing at all todo with bitcoin.
>
> Javascript - LGPL-2.1
> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/chainpad
>
> An early use of the algorithm:
> http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/RtWiki

Care to explain what exactly a "blockchain" is being used for in this
case?

In particular, how does what you are doing differ from the directec
acyclic graph structure seen in, say, git-style decentralized revision
control systems?

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