Meanwhile, on LinkedIn...

Basically the article proposes using a private distributed ledger to syncronize users between different Drupal installations within an organization.

Interesting idea, but I can't see why you couldn't bridge all of these installations together without a blockchain to effectively accomplish the same thing?

@deadsuperhero Yeah within a single organization that makes no sense; a shared LDAP or PostgreSQL install would be fine. Blockchain makes a lot more sense ACROSS administrative domains. I think a blockchain makes a lot of sense for something like claiming usernames, though without a desktop/mobile app to help with key management, the admin of whatever node you use can still hijack your username in that case.

@seanl The other thing is that I don't think blockchains are particularly known for supporting mutable data? What happens if an employee leaves an organization? Does the blockchain have to be regenerated to account for the person's departure?

@deadsuperhero @seanl You can delete files with git right? And git is an awful lot like a blockchain.

However, without checkpointing, you can't *recover the space of* the file (or employee data) you deleted in git or a blockchain.

IMO distributed ledgers have some good uses but right now people are kinda blockchain crazy because hype hype hype