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badbaguette
12y ago
Point taken, but I think that a long list of all accounts and their balances is essentially a ledger even if those balances are constrained to be positive. A ledger is almost certainly a better model for thinking about the blockchain than,
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badbaguette
12y ago
The appeal of bitcoin in this respect is that it disrupts the idea of money "being" in a certain place and thus having to "move" across borders. As a worldwide distributed ledger, it's unclear that sending someone b