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April 07, 2015, 04:31:40 PM |
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i see it as an innovation that has the potential to change our currently much dated financial system.
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April 07, 2015, 04:55:23 PM |
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The blockchain is a digital public ledger of accounts containing values protected by modern encryption with transactional trust between those accounts enforced using strong mathematical principles.
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April 07, 2015, 05:21:08 PM |
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A safe and secure public ledger for every transaction ever happened in the bitcoin network
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April 07, 2015, 11:46:19 PM |
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The agreed upon record of all bitcoin transactions.
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April 08, 2015, 12:05:22 AM |
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A tamper-proof, transparent public ledger.
I really miss the word distributed - that's one of the core characteristics of the blockchain. I'd say: A tamper-proof, transparent and distributed ledger.
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April 08, 2015, 12:43:17 AM |
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A few people here have described Bitcoin as a ledger that can't be changed. But is that entirely correct? I know there was one altcoin (was it Vericoin?)which had a lot of coins stolen from an exchange and the exchanges and miners got together and rolled back the blockchain so that the thief lost their coins.
Presumably that is possible with Bitcoin?
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April 08, 2015, 02:13:38 AM |
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A transparent, unchangeable, digital public ledger.
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April 08, 2015, 02:59:25 AM |
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I know there was one altcoin (was it Vericoin?)which had a lot of coins stolen from an exchange and the exchanges and miners got together and rolled back the blockchain so that the thief lost their coins.
Presumably that is possible with Bitcoin? That would require collusion of everyone running a copy of the blockchain to suddenly switch to a new one AND for miners to actually mine on it. I don't see any conceivable way people would support a hard fork like that, look at the controversy over Gavin's idea to merely increase the block size as an example of how hard it is to convince people to make a single development change.
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April 08, 2015, 03:27:31 AM |
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Blockchain = transparent distribution and permanent ![Lips sealed](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/lipsrsealed.gif)
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April 08, 2015, 03:53:03 AM |
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Blockchain is a cashier network working on both sides noting transactions and keeping ledgers...
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April 08, 2015, 05:06:08 AM |
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Slow usless peice of shit
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April 08, 2015, 05:34:07 AM |
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Everyone has their own opinion ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) I would go with "A multi-functioned and decentralized tamper-proof, transparent public ledger" .... quite a mouthfull... but it says a lot. Juicyjuice87 - What do you compare it to, when you say it's slow and useless? A single functioned credit card with chargebacks? or a wire transfer?
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April 08, 2015, 06:52:08 AM |
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good, nice, simple. its for me, and it depend the user.
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April 08, 2015, 07:34:42 AM |
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Blockchain is a series of events (like financial transactions as in Bitcoin), that majority of the nodes on a network agree on their time and seriality.
P.S. Sorry for my english, not a native speaker
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April 08, 2015, 08:48:50 AM |
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A public ledger you can trace the money flow.
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April 08, 2015, 10:08:02 AM |
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WOW three pages ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) Thanks guys! Am gonna get stuck into this thread now. Looks very interesting and will comment. Thanks guys for all your posts. I think I will compile one long paragraph/short essay out of all your replies! Thanks again. Tom
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April 08, 2015, 10:44:40 AM |
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The solution of the epic bizantine general problem.
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April 08, 2015, 11:01:18 AM |
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I can describe it in one word: cool. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif)
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Any significantly advanced cryptocurrency is indistinguishable from Ponzi Tulips.
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April 08, 2015, 12:27:35 PM |
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The cloud-based database which automatically records all BTC transactions and keeps them forever for everyone to see.
The idea of "automatic recording" is important to me, because sometimes, you wish you'd be able to make unrecorded transactions.
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I used to be a citizen and a taxpayer. Those days are long gone.
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April 08, 2015, 12:32:41 PM |
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Decentralized secure consistent data storage
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Will take me a while to climb up again, But where is a will, there is a way...
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