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What is your analogue to bitcoin from a decade ago ? Merkel trees are old (1979), Hashcash goes back to 1997 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://e

What is your analogue to bitcoin from a decade ago ? Merkel trees are old (1979), Hashcash goes back to 1997 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash But bitcoin is not just a rebranding of a combination of hashcash, merk trees, forth, pgp, BitTorrent. Also what is the analogue to reactive in the past ? The main reason for reactive is different screen sizes and orientation of handheld devices. What similar problem would reactive have solved 2 decades ago ? There are a couple of references from 2001 and 2004 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design , but really there wasn't a practical common use case before the iPhone in 2007 and ipad in 2010.

im_down_w_otp 10y ago
"Blockchain", not bitcoin, and "Blockchain" is quite literally a specific application of Merkle Trees and Merkle Proofs, and they've been used almost exactly like this in payments clearing & settlement + dispute systems for tranlog coherency checks and resolution for a long time. "Reactive", as in http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/, and it's manifestations in various Akka projects like http://www.reactive-streams.org/ http://www.reactive-streams.org/. Reading the "manifesto" reads like somebody going to really, really extensive lengths to talk about Erlang without actually saying "Erlang" and that's been around publicly, along with its runtime semantics, since 1998.