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Re:Don't get caught up in blockchain hype by 0xC0DECAFE2020 on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:17AM (#15920510)
I think it really pertains to using merkle trees. If you take a deep look into how bitcoin actually is implemented merkle trees are the base with which it is formed around.
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Re:Don't get caught up in blockchain hype by subway on Thursday December 14, 2017 @02:40AM (#15920592)
This. 1000x. The beautiful thing is if you approach the conversation as one about a merkle tree built on a consensus algorithm, while avoiding the term 'blockchain', it's still possible to get folks excited about the tech.
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Re:Don't get caught up in blockchain hype by dreamfactored on Thursday December 14, 2017 @07:47PM (#15928837)
> folks

The subset who have CS degrees maybe

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