Segwit was originally meant to be a hard fork back in 2016, but since this would have meant splitting the coin into two on
entirely different blockchains and devaluation of the coin — core team settled with UASF first and then segwit.
Not exact matches
But creating a whole new
blockchain, with all the encryption, security and infrastructure required, is an
entirely different undertaking.
«This method is an
entirely different approach to identity verification, and together with SecureKey, we have a head start on putting it on the
Blockchain,» she says.
To summarize, despite their technical similarities to cryptocurrency
blockchains, permissioned
blockchains are being used for
entirely different things.
Newer
blockchains and other cryptocurrencies either have much shorter block times or use an
entirely different system altogether such as relying on masternodes or something similar to resolve scaling issues.