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The whole thing was not created by an anonymous developer 10 years ago. The building blocks used in bitcoin have been around for many years before this in thing
by nomadiccoder 5y ago
The whole thing was not created by an anonymous developer 10 years ago. The building blocks used in bitcoin have been around for many years before this in things like hashcash. Furthermore distributed consensus is a topic researched for decades. The term cryptocurrency uses crypto as a base which has been researched for centuries. Bitcoin is a novel constuction around crypto primatives relying on economic incentive to solve distributed consensus. There are clearly domain experts here.
- fallingknife 5y agoIn terms of the tech, yes. But that doesn't give you any insight into the market, which is what the comment I was replying to was talking about.