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https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/blockchain.md
Is the #Fossil #scm #vcs a #blockchain? Maybe not, but the article illustrates how many concepts of a blockchain are used in fields other than cryptocurrencies.
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> Fossil stores a DAG of hash-chained commits, so an indisputably correct term is a Merkle tree, named after its inventor. You could also use the more generic term “hash tree.”
> Fossil is a technological peer to many common sorts of blockchain technology. There is a lot of overlap in concepts and implementation details, but when speaking of what most people understand as “blockchain,” Fossil is not that.