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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team by bawolff on Monday August 18, 2025 @05:46PM (#44945681)
Yeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is really cool.

I'd love to see more systems exploring this combination approach. There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that.

Its everything that came after that point that is the problem.

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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team by throwanem on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:49AM (#44949602)
You want to stop things happening after other things?
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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team by vasco on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @07:07AM (#44950272)
> There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that.

What problem did we solve with bitcoin?

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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team by bdhcuidbebe on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:05AM (#44950626)
The blockchain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team by altern8tif on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @08:37AM (#44950861)
The blockchain isn't the problem. It's supposedly the solution.
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Re:Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team by bawolff on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:14PM (#44953851)
The distributed double spend problem.

I'm not here to argue that its a useful problem to solve, just that the solution is ingenious, and i think the methods used potentially have applications to other problems.

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