Yeah, my point was that an internal PoW ledger (not decentralized but still technically a blockchain) would’ve been useful because: A) stack tracking per stackable type is trivial with UXTO, and B) adding a few seconds of PoW makes the resulting chain so hard to forge for crime-of-opportunity style attacks (preventing internal employees from making untraceable gold) that it could’ve prevented a few firings/calls to the authorities during my time. Oh, and C) it might’ve resolved the duping issues with cross-server character transfer exploits (a different beast than areaservs), and D) heh, maybe conned an engineer into making a block explorer dashboard so we could see the global state of currency/stackable amounts
Like you said: most of these except B) could’ve been done with traditional techniques and relational databases, but I maintain A) might’ve been easier than the message passing code required to synchronize and emulate it.
Like you said: most of these except B) could’ve been done with traditional techniques and relational databases, but I maintain A) might’ve been easier than the message passing code required to synchronize and emulate it.