On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies — mentioned by alex_sf

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:11:29 GMT

> - Bitcoin doesn't use DHTs. I didn't say it did. But the idea of distributing data in a P2P fashion is not novel. > - The term blockchain was coined after the Bitcoin white paper was published, to describe the mechanism used in Bitcoin. I'm not very interested in the particular etymology. The fundamental ideas of a blockchain, regardless of what you call it, had been laid out by multiple people years before the bitcoin whitepaper[0]. > - Bitcoin was the first system to solve the double spending problem in a decentralized way. No, it wasn't[1][2]. > The network is actively used. Just…

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On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies — mentioned by xyzzy123

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 08:34:53 GMT

There is a distinct cypherpunk lineage that we can trace through Chaum and down to Satoshi and beyond. Ref eg: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.06130.pdf Chaum didn't invent p2p blockchains but his systems did have ledgers and stuff like anonymous payments between nyms. Yes, the goal of DigiCash was that it would have occupied a similar place to Paypal (the goal of most early e-cash systems!) but the underlying technology was very different and a lot closer to what bitcoin became.

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On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies — mentioned by alex_sf

On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies — mentioned by xyzzy123