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Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Is Eternal (#277)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Why Did It Take So Long?

Natoji: I've often wondered, there's nothing about Bitcoin that couldn't have been implemented 20 years ago or 30 years ago. Why do we think it took so long? fundamentally, it's a relatively simple algorithm that gives it so much power. Natoji: You need to have bandwidth suitable enough and enough people who had computers that were permanently connected to the internet to host the Bitcoin blockchain.

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