“The whole point of #distributed #ledgers is to have a group of computers coming to consensus in such a way that we don’t have to #trust any one person,” Dr. Baird [#holochain creator] says, but such “#consensus #algorithms” can be built a number of other ways than with #blockchain, a technology, he argues, still lacks in #fairness.

"Beneath bitcoin: the quest for a new layer of Internet technology"

https://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/magazine/2017-12-14/beneath-bitcoin-the-quest-for-a-new-layer-of-internet-technology/10418/