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by nikolay·10y ago·view on hn ↗
Bitcoin is long dead; the blockchain - not so much, but it won't survive in its present form as it's highly inefficient.
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How do you have one without the other?
"Blockchain" is just a brand name given to a particular form of using Merkle trees, and Merkle trees have no correlation or dependency whatsoever on Bitcoin.
The blockchain as a technology, not necessarily an operating service.