On 12/28/2017 01:43 PM, Gregg Reynolds wrote:

> 
> That's pretty much where I am. I cannot (yet) see how you can have both
> ultra-constrained nodes and blockchain, but that's prolly cause I'm not
> smart enough. The one use case I can see is audit trail, keeping a record
> of on/off-boarding, config changes, OTA updates, etc.

yeah, I think this is where the thought appeal lies.  maybe in the home,
but more likely in industrial, smart cities, and other such
applications: nodes wanting to reconfigure themselves to adapt to
situations that matter - where power is sent to, how transportation
units are routed, etc.  It's a problem if this reconfiguration happens
at the behest of bad actors, and "blockchain solves that" conceptually,
by making it really difficult for such bad actors to gain the
credibility to make those changes.  But I'm not that convinced that the
technologies of distributed consensus-making that are in play today are
anything those in control of such "valuable" resources are ready to give
up their control over. Call me a skeptic.
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