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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by fooker on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:43PM (#17865417)
There is difference between bitcoin and blockchain. A blockchain is, by definition, a linked list of hashes.
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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by 0xfffff on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:49PM (#17865445)
That's just called a hash chain, Bitcoin I believe just calls it a chain of hashes. The block data structure incl. salt and POW is what is so unique about Bitcoin.
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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by bittcto on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:30AM (#17867689)
“By definition” people are just making up “Blockchain” as a desperate technology, usually people who don’t understand how bitcoin works and don’t realize they are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Redefining the nature of the technology to get away from the difficult reality of it isn’t effective in the end.

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