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> And this is still the beginning, we are quite early! I've never understood this argument. Bitcoin's first software release is just shy of 13 years ago now, a
by ac29 5y ago
> And this is still the beginning, we are quite early!
I've never understood this argument. Bitcoin's first software release is just shy of 13 years ago now, and the whitepaper and related discussions were even before that. That's an enormous amount of time in the technology world. As a comparison, the first iPhone came out 14 years ago, and 13 years before that, you could still buy a brand new Apple II from Apple.
- rfd4sgmk8u 5y agoiPhone is a product. Bitcoin is a protocol, a meme, a way of life (?). "Internet" is TCP/IP. It is a protocol, a meme, and a way of life. TCP/IP was invented in 1983. SMTP was invented in 1981. The way we TCP/IP and SMTP are used today would be impossible to predict for their inventors. 13 years ain't much in protocol terms :-)
- maccolgan 5y agoInternet isn't TCP though, it's _just_ IP, and there's two internets, some computers have access to one, or the other, or both.