Given the amount of people that suggest blockchains in a trusted environment it seems perfectly reasonable to reiterate that you don't need a blockchain to have distributed consensus.
I was hoping for something different given the title though.
I was hoping for something different given the title though.
It's sort of like apps that run on Electron, performance might be bad but it's easy on the developer.
But for certain types of lower stakes applications (say a log running on a mesh network of sensors) blockchains can provide a simple way to do something that could otherwise be fairly complicated. Certain blockchain implementations (I like MultiChain) are really easy to use.