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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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