Top all-time · #5738
MultiChain
Company blog · multichain.com/blogbusinessprogramming
MultiChain is the company blog at multichain.com, writing about business and programming. Since 2015, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Blockchains vs. centralized databases”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link MultiChain's blog posts on when a blockchain is actually useful and on blockchain capabilities. Commenters point to it as a balanced source amid blockchain hype.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Blockchains vs. centralized databases2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-22
- Wolfram Mathematica to add MultiChain integration2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-08
- Ending the Bitcoin vs. Blockchain Debate2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-20
- Avoiding a pointless blockchain project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-07
What Hacker News says?
These cover it pretty well: Why you don’t want a blockchain https://twitter.com/jimmysong/status/964172100054417409 Do you need a blockchain? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16315456 Avoiding the pointless blockchain project: How to determine if you’ve found a real blockchain use case https://www.multichain.com/blog/2015/11/avoiding-pointless-b...
Comment linking /blog/2015/11/avoiding-pointless-blockchain-project/
on “Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality”Submitted Avoiding a pointless blockchain project as a story · 139 points
HN discussionI would be curious to understand what problems these blockchains solve. Intuitively, they do not seem like obvious candidates for financial transactions. 1. They really shine in a p2p architecture where no party trusts each other. But that's not how the financial system works. Banks trust central banks, exchanges and clearing houses, and it is very much a club where players have to be vetted and monitored by a regul…
Comment linking /blog/2015/11/avoiding-pointless-blockchain-project/
on “Goldman Sachs Drops Out of R3 Blockchain Group”Submitted Ending the Bitcoin vs. Blockchain Debate as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI never got the impression that HN “hates” Ethereum, but I will say that the primary language used for writing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain has some disconcerting properties. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008 It is still not entirely clear to me how much of these things are problems with Solidity (name of said language) only, or if any of those issues are core to the Ethereum Virtual Machin…
Comment linking /blog/2015/11/smart-contracts-good-bad-lazy/
on “Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails”Submitted Three (non-pointless) permissioned blockchains in production as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor consortium chains, one possible solution is mining diversity which enforces round-robin mining/creation of blocks. http://www.multichain.com/qa/13/multichain-blockchain-mining
Comment linking /qa/13/multichain-blockchain-mining
on “Tech and Banking Giants Ditch Bitcoin for Their Own Blockchain”Submitted A rational take on cryptocurrencies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe best source by far in the industry is the multi chain blog. http://www.multichain.com/blog/ There's a lot of hype about what Blockchain can do, these guys are in the game but I think give a balanced view on the capabilities. When you take the currency away from the Blockchain the actual capabilities are severely limited. This is because the currency provides incentives to decentralize. When you take those incent…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: Sources for learning about all the blockchain based business models?”Submitted Blockchains vs. centralized databases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe guys over at multi chain have a great blog. https://www.multichain.com/blog/ For example https://www.multichain.com/blog/2016/05/four-genuine-blockch...
Comment linking /blog/2016/05/four-genuine-blockchain-use-cases/
on “Where do you read about blockchain?”Submitted Wolfram Mathematica to add MultiChain integration as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"If trust and robustness aren’t an issue, there’s nothing a blockchain can do that a regular database cannot." https://www.multichain.com/blog/2016/03/blockchains-vs-centr...
Comment linking /blog/2016/03/blockchains-vs-centralized-databases/
on “German Chemical Company Pilots Supply Chain Blockchain”Submitted MultiChain source code release as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four key differences between blockchains and regular databases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is there any value in a blockchain without a cryptocurrency? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted R3 Corda: Deep dive and technical review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If trust and robustness are no issue, blockchains aren't besser than databases as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MultiChain 1.0 beta 2 and 2.0 roadmap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wolfram Mathematica to add MultiChain integration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding zero knowledge blockchains as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smart contracts: The good, the bad and the lazy as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
