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Re:El Salvador to airdrop $30 in Bitcoin to up to 6M citizens by NicoJuicy on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:47AM (#27628818)
That's not true.

Blockchain tech is unrelated to bitcoins/crypto's.

Just like Stackoverflow doesn't correlate with the value of the .Net framework or HN doesn't correlate with the value of the ARC programming language ( since it's build on that tech)

It's an example of the tech, but the value of blockchain does not have a correlation with any of the 8000 implementations as crypto.

Additionally, the implementation of El Salvador uses Lightning network and since that obfuscates transactions off-chain to a centralized authority. It's not what i'd call blockchain anymore.

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Re:El Salvador to airdrop $30 in Bitcoin to up to 6M citizens by southerntofu on Friday June 25, 2021 @05:57AM (#27628864)
> Blockchain tech is unrelated to bitcoins

Yes and no. The latter is built from the former. But the former is ensured to build wasteful tech. I explain the difference between consensus and gossip in an article about decentralized forging, if you're interested:

https://staticadventures.netlib.re/blog/decentralized-forge/

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Re:El Salvador to airdrop $30 in Bitcoin to up to 6M citizens by NicoJuicy on Friday June 25, 2021 @10:29AM (#27631200)
I don't think decentralized tech ( = blockchain) applies to Bitcoin anymore in El Salvador.

Eg. With the lightning network

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