To be fair, the theory with the whole coin thing is solid, and I'd say it should count as something to be proud of even if in reality it gets tainted by speculative investments.

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bawolff 3 days ago | parent [-]

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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vasco 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> 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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bawolff 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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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bdhcuidbebe 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The blockchain.

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

	▲	altern8tif 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The blockchain isn't the problem. It's supposedly the solution.

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throwanem 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You want to stop things happening after other things?