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Comment by elmar | Hacker News Reader

The system you are building needs to be decentralized and censorship-resistant? yes, then you need a blockchain.

This is bullshit. Plain bullshit. Tor is decentralized and censorship resistant. I am not 100% whether Kademlia networks are censorship resistant but I think so.

> I am not 100% whether Kademlia networks are censorship resistant but I think so.

Seconded. I'm almost certain they are, or at least, they're pretty damn hard to stop.

There are many decentralized and censorship-resistant protocols. Those qualities do not require a blockchain...

And blockchain can be quasi-centralized as well as get censored by those who pool majority of resources.

Excellent points. Thank you!

Yes, a blockchain is just a graph data structure. centralization and censorship resistance are only due to how the data structure is used not to there being a data structure.

It's actually pretty similar to saying - Need to drink milk? Use a splay tree.

There's an informative flowchart on p. 3 of the linked PDF that describes the logic of this site. Your question is basically covered by "are there multiple writers?" since that implies decentralization, which also implies censorship resistance. Further censorship resistance is implied by the "private permissioned blockchain" choice, which is recommended when public verifiability is not required.

IPFS also offers a decentralised and censorship-resistant database. (Kinda).

It's just not persistent the way Bitcoin's blockchain is.

Censorship resistant? As long as the censor allows bitcoin/ethereum node connections at ISP level, yes. So no, not resistant.

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