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Re:Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video] by zby on Monday July 16, 2018 @04:10PM (#17544659)
I think there is some typo in your comment - because otherwise - do you mean that permissionless DLT was obvious (as in anyone who read Foundations of Cryptography by Oded Goldreich could create it) and bitcoin was not a breakthrough?
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Re:Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video] by robertk on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:42PM (#17546410)
Nope. I simply mean that it is not a fraud, and can provide a legitimate service in the form of a new abstraction implemented in software.
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