[maxerickson]

The bitcoin whitepaper used the word "block" in the sense of "some data under a given hash".

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

It didn't use the word block in the sense of "to stop people from forging history".

[bittcto]

The entire point of Bitcoin is the distributed trustless consensus mechanism. Read the Nakamoto white paper, it’s all about double spending.

A chain of hashed data dates back to Merkle himself, that’s what a Merkle tree is.

The entire point of bitcoin is distributed independent truth and that’s the entire point of a Blockchain.

[maxerickson]

Your copy pasta is somewhat less effective when I linked the whitepaper to make my point.