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Yeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is real
by bawolff 1y ago
Yeah. 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.