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March 08, 2013, 01:08:39 AM |
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Arguably, the Bitcoin blockchain (taken logically as a single data-set, now 5.5Gb) is the single most information-dense object in the known universe.
Remarkably, it is really easy to copy, so there are thousands of copies around the world. At the same time ridiculously hard to counterfeit, for practical purposes - nearly impossible, to make a new one of comparable size, especially as it keeps growing!
Satoshi Nakamoto, take a bow. I want to see the day he gets a Nobel prize (Economic Sciences) for this invention. Maybe he'll turn up for it?
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