Popping the Crypto Bubble with Nicholas Weaver
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Is the Cryptocurrency So New?
Bitcoin is ten years old, but where are all these applications? The notion of append only data and append only ledgers is actually decades old. We've known how to do this since the nineties. Merkle trees are such a cool idea. Yes, the patent is from 19 70. Ha hamha, ha, ha. Ah, om the underlying occasionally you hear bit coin ocates go. So a drem is going the wrong wthis is oneof the best arguments i've heard recently - it's illiterately.
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