Old school blockchain indexer

[JayCoin]

This is how they indexed the block chain in the olden days 

[jeffhuys]

This is how they indexed the block chain in the olden days 
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Where did you get this from? This is basically what's still happening, only that it's now completely automatic, and worldwide, but it's still a shared ledger with this (and some extra) information in it

[JayCoin]

I would mail these to ten of my friends, and put a note in it to mail it to ten of there friends, and so on..

Old school peer to peer   

[jeffhuys]

I would mail these to ten of my friends, and put a note in it to mail it to ten of there friends, and so on..

Old school peer to peer   

Yep You just described how peer to peer works... Somewhat. There are a lot of other things going on like encryption and everything. Also, that's not really peer to peer, you need a mailman that can check the mail if he wants to!