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by throw0101d 863 days ago
As someone who has used cryptography† since he downloaded PGP 2.x in the early 1990s, and was around for the Crypto Wars (using the "non-us" Debian repos), I am aware what Bitcoin is technically-speaking.

† This includes using chained hashes:

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=opie&sektion=4

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1760

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2289

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> Crypto Wars

Ah, the good old days, when "crypto" meant cryptography, and not some polluting get-rich-quick scheme.

ETA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars