Blythe Masters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Yo8bt8JAU
Wow, how have I not seen this before... Great talk, and the language she uses to describe blockchain technology is... masterful.
distributed ledger technology is the most widely used phrase in her talk I believe.
Thanks for sharing!
Actually, I am not a fan of the term "distributed ledger" .. simply because every kind digital data can be distributed .. git is a distributed ledger aswell just for code commits/history
I'd prefer to distinguish between:
* blockchain as an immutable database of "the past" events
* a protocol that describes how the blockchain "evolves"
The protocol may contain:
* the business model
* a finite state machine for any kind of "data transitions"
* how transactions are interpreted
* how transactions are bundled to a block
* how bundles transactions
if the last question is "decentralized" .. then the protocol also contains a
* distributed conensus finding scheme
Hence, a blockchain has nothing to do with "being decentralized" and only the
"consensus scheme" can be decentralized (assuming the blocks are broadcast
publicly, else it would be a private chain, which can also be decentralized BTW)