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Re:The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency by skohan on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:26AM (#27769823)
Git isn't a blockchain.
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Re:The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency by neolog on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:27AM (#27769827)
Why not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
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Re:The Non-Innovation of Cryptocurrency by skohan on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:31AM (#27769857)
> The blockchain was invented by a person (or group of people) using the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008

> Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel

They use similar data structures, but blockchain is more than a Merkel tree, it also includes a consensus algorithm.

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