[bawolff]

Yeah. I personally think the original bitcoin whitepaper is a work of genius. Balancing the soft game theory incentives with hard cryptography garuntees is really cool.

I'd love to see more systems exploring this combination approach. There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that.

Its everything that came after that point that is the problem.

[vasco]

> There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that.

What problem did we solve with bitcoin?

[bawolff]

The distributed double spend problem.

I'm not here to argue that its a useful problem to solve, just that the solution is ingenious, and i think the methods used potentially have applications to other problems.

[bdhcuidbebe]

The blockchain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

[altern8tif]

The blockchain isn't the problem. It's supposedly the solution.

[throwanem]

You want to stop things happening after other things?