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Re:My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don... by wgerard on Monday February 12, 2018 @10:50AM (#16359388)
> To your comments re bitcoin, it sounds to me like somebody complaining that Internet is slow back in the 90s/00s.

To their point though, dial-up modems are (by and large) a relic of the past and have been replaced by better (i.e. faster) methods of internet access.

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Re:My professional opinion as a blockchain researcher: I don... by feriancek on Monday February 12, 2018 @12:57PM (#16360407)
We still use TCP! The way we access the (internet) network has changed, but the network still works in the same way.
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