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Re:The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin ... by nerdponx on Friday December 22, 2017 @12:52AM (#15985532)
What are the equivalents with cryptocurrencies/blockchains?

They aren't nearly as tangible. The big innovation here is the blockchain tech itself -- a distributed, immutable, public ledger. It's a very specific innovation, and it mostly benefits big businesses, but it's an innovation nonetheless.

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Re:The Can’t-Lose Way for Your Business to Pop: Add Bitcoin ... by eru on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:49AM (#15986130)
Git (and similar) had that for ages. The technical innovation is in particular combination of proof-of-work with the hash chain.

But of course the social innovation might have been to make that long established technology cool and popular.

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