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0 pointsalex_sf3y ago0 comments

Yeah, but, it's really not going to be. Like, there is absolutely no chance of that, ever.

Even in the very-unlikely world where some sort of decentralized cryptocurrency is used for anything other than scams and drugs, it's not going to be bitcoin, and blockchains existed for decades before bitcoin did.

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doodlesdev3y ago

   > blockchains existed for decades before bitcoin did

That's absolutely not true. Bitcoin was the first blockchain like the ones we know today, the idea existed before but no one had implemented it in a decentralized way [0][1]. Bitcoin was also the first to solve the double spending problem. [2]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending

alex_sfOP3y ago

We had DHTs, we had blockchains, and double spending was solved at least 2 years before the bitcoin white paper.

Satoshi combined them together in a novel form, for sure, but it’s still largely useless.

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