
@bascule ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri 🦀") wrote:
The cryptocurrency space needs to stop putting Satoshi's designs on a pedestal.
We need to recognize that collectively in 2021 there are hundreds if not thousands of people who understand the problem space better than Satoshi did circa 2008-2009.
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@bascule ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri 🦀") replied to a tweet by masonic_tweets:
@masonic_tweets @rmhrisk No, they made a Merkle Tree.
A blockchain is what you get when someone who doesn't understand Merkle Trees, like Satoshi, tries to deploy a Merkle Tree:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/consensus/merkle.cpp