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Really though? I’m confident there are 100 RFCs alone that were more impactful.
Silicon Valley tech-bros know that the money-printer drives the malinvestment bubbles that feed them. They're natural enemies of a decentralized, deflationary currency.
Better than a U2 album, that's for sure.
I sold the car and even had to start iTunes to remove the album.
Better than a U2 album, that's for sure.
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And also to support oppressive governments by helping work around sanctions?
You may not be aware of how Bitcoin has consistently aided people facing extreme and dire circumstances worldwide, caused by the sanctions you seem to hold in high esteem. Every time you cheer for sanctions, you're cheering for the suffering and death of the most vulnerable people in the world under the guise that somehow a miracle will arise and the malnourished and starving will topple an already oppressive regime.…
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Can you give some examples?
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt the thing that lets us communicate like this :)
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And facilitating organized crime, terrorism, and investment scams.
Which of these do not happen when using conventional money?
I would be willing to wager there is more inside that PDF than just the contents of the Bitcoin white paper. Curious if anyone has a hash sum handy
/System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf sha256: b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553 sha512: 2ac531ee521cf93f8419c2018f770fbb42c65396178e079a416e7038d3f9ab9fc2c35c4d838bc8b5dd68f4c13759fe9cdf90a46528412fefe1294cb26beabf4e crc32 (lol): 13af7d06 md5: d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042 sha1: 8de2fdb04edce612738eb51e14ecc426381f8ed8
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We had DHTs, we had blockchains, and double spending was solved at least 2 years before the bitcoin white paper. Satoshi combined them together in a novel form, for sure, but it’s still largely useless.
Any more background on how double spending was solved 2 years before bitcoin?
In 2007 we had Combating Double-Spending Using Cooperative P2P Systems[0]. Prior to both the whitepaper and the genesis block, we had Distributed Double Spending Prevention[1].
These are all particular subsets of distributed consensus problems, which have been studied in the context of CS for at least 30+ years (Consensus in the Presence of Partial Synchrony[2]).
[0] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4268195