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by tboyd47 3312 days ago
I would start with the simplest proven blockchain use case: Bitcoin. Bill Gates called Bitcoin a technological tour de force - something I don't think he's said about "Blockchain."

Learn about the design choices made in Bitcoin and how its blockchain adds to that integrated whole, and you will see how the stability of the network emerges as a tensegrity of multiple competing forces with opposing incentives.

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Thanks for the recommendation, anything you've found online that you've particularly enjoyed?
I recommend the talks of Andreas Antonopoulos.