Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree

Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by cs702 on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:50PM (#15135364)

Prior to Bitcoin, there was NO distributed algorithm capable of maintaining an agreed-upon blockchain of transactions in perpetuity, in a manner resistant to attack by fraudulent nodes. Such an algorithm didn't exist prior to Bitcoin.

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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by axus on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:00PM (#15135461)

I think mayank wanted you to say "Bitcoin's peer-to-peer protocol, on the other hand, is a new distributed algorithm"

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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by mayank on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:23PM (#15135667)

I can get on board with that :)

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Re:Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by cs702 on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @04:41PM (#15135805)

Me too. I updated my original comment to state exactly that.

I love HN :-)

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