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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by maxerickson on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:40AM (#17867178)
The bitcoin whitepaper used the word "block" in the sense of "some data under a given hash".

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It didn't use the word block in the sense of "to stop people from forging history".

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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by bittcto on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:28AM (#17867677)
The entire point of Bitcoin is the distributed trustless consensus mechanism. Read the Nakamoto white paper, it’s all about double spending.

A chain of hashed data dates back to Merkle himself, that’s what a Merkle tree is.

The entire point of bitcoin is distributed independent truth and that’s the entire point of a Blockchain.

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Re:The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New ... by maxerickson on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:32AM (#17867699)
Your copy pasta is somewhat less effective when I linked the whitepaper to make my point.
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