Better at what? Faster? Google sheets.
All Blockchains are “better” than one another depending on whether you are looking at security or speed or centralization, etc.
All Blockchains are “better” than one another depending on whether you are looking at security or speed or centralization, etc.
I could be wrong though.
Yes, but are there any (other?) "non-blockchains" that are better as distributed ledgers"?
I'm assuming here that you didn't count Google Sheets as being a Blockchain, but that you did count it to be (capable of being used as) a distributed ledger
It started out by using some large distinctive stones and adding markings to them. Additional markings and additional stones could be added. A key property was that all the information was public and known to the islanders, so if someone were to fake a marking or forge a stone it would immediately be invalidated. The oral recounting of the stones was a literal gossip protocol.
As the story goes, a stone was lost to sea during a storm. Nothing changed as everyone remembered it and either already agreed what was on it, or came to consensus. The physical presence/existence of the stone wasn't needed at all.