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[–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

The tweet doesn’t say that he created bitcoin. It says he created blockchain. I didn’t want to assume something negative about a person without knowing for sure. For all I know, he’s just some random dude who’s good at math/coding, and others are responsible for the bitcoin nonsense.

I even admitted my ignorance on the topic, hoping for a straightforward answer, and you can see how well that worked out.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Well, Satoshi's whitepaper is called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", so it's pretty obvious what the author(s) consider(s) its main contribution to be. Arguably, the concept of a blockchain wasn't invented by Satoshi (the idea of a ledger using Merkle trees of hashes existed before), neither was proof-of-work (the idea of requiring computation as a cost of performing an action also existed, e.g. to prevent email spam). The novelty was combining all that to create a currency system and the implementation. And the motivation spilling throughout the paper is very much libertarian and goldbuggy.

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