David Rosenthal, of Stanford & developer of the LOCKSS digital preservation system, has warned against the blockchain-hype & suggests it's a "brittle" technology (when it fails, the failure is sudden/catastrophic rather than gradual) which isn't suitable for long-term preservation systems.
http://blog.dshr.org/2015/06/brittle-systems.html
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