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> We had this back in the 70s, FWIW Sorry, what?
by Joeboy 7y ago
> We had this back in the 70s, FWIW
Sorry, what?
- bildung 7y agoI suppose that referred to Merkle trees? Those are from 1979.
- Joeboy 7y agoI guess. "Merkle trees are a miserable hunk of garbage" seems like a slightly extreme view to me.
- lightedman 7y agoWe had permissionless distributed databases (that's all blockchain is) in the 70s. They failed because they are hugely inefficient and extremely resource intensive with each added node. What's old is new again. I'm old enough to have used one of these in the early 80s, learned about from a BBS I was frequenting.