Save for later

Yesterday evening we had a workshop to discuss governance of the OffChain Luxembourg organisation.

We were 8, and were incredibly productive, reaching unanimity on the mechanism for vote weighing for strategic decisions.

So we said: this decision should be saved. I replied: "Yes, it is indeed foreseen, we just need to do a post as Hive account@offchain-lux and write there what we decided."

And Hive account@eyza reflected: "Well, but we also need somewhere to store the actual detail, as text, because on the blockchain we'll have just the hash, right?"

Well, no, and this is something many people who were into blockchain for a while do not realise about Hive. Unlike Ethereum and its hundreds of clones, Hive is a document database: the text is IN THE BLOCKS of the blockchain. It is not just a hash to text stored someplace else.

Check the details of this transaction as recorded in one of the block explorers and if you look carefully, you'll find the whole text of this post.

https://hivehub.dev/tx/5c979bfd9d10d1ec61cb2ba93e71b88bae0a0d6b

Which also implies another exceptional feature of Hive: it is a versioning system, keeping the history of modifications with timestamps and authors, like CVS or Subversion or Git.

For free.

Thus, Hive is the blockchain to "save for later". Here is an example of a WhatsApp discussion in the Hibou Orange WhatsApp group, where the need to "save for later" shows up: