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To be fair, the theory with the whole coin thing is solid, and I'd say it should count as something to be proud of even if in reality it gets tainted by specula
by skeaker 1y ago
To be fair, the theory with the whole coin thing is solid, and I'd say it should count as something to be proud of even if in reality it gets tainted by speculative investments.
- bawolff 1y agoYeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is really cool. I'd love to see more systems exploring this combination approach. There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that. Its everything that came after that point that is the problem.
- throwanem 1y agoYou want to stop things happening after other things?
- vasco 1y ago> There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that. What problem did we solve with bitcoin?
- bdhcuidbebe 1y agoThe blockchain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
- altern8tif 1y agoThe blockchain isn't the problem. It's supposedly the solution.
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- bawolff 1y agoThe distributed double spend problem. I'm not here to argue that its a useful problem to solve, just that the solution is ingenious, and i think the methods used potentially have applications to other problems.