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by vasco 297 days ago
> 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?

2 comments

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.

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