Bitcoin Innovation Debate

The cluster discusses Bitcoin's core innovations, such as solving double-spending and enabling decentralized trust via blockchain, debating whether it is truly revolutionary or merely Crypto 1.0 compared to prior ideas and technologies.

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jqpabc123 Feb 10, 2021 View on HN

Bitcoin is Crypto 1.0.There are better ways to do this. But people remain infatuated with Bitcoin.

Brian_K_White May 12, 2021 View on HN

That is an implementation detail of bitcoin, not a fundamental aspect of cryptocurrency.Bitcoin is cryptocurrency 1.0, or proof of concept, and the concept is well and truly proven.Developing others which operate more efficiently than the proof-of-concept or 1.0 version, or even than the existing banks and credit card exchanges is just engineering and iteration, and hardly a great leap of imagination or faith.

kayamon Aug 16, 2023 View on HN

You say “in crypto” yet Bitcoin was invented to solve the problem you describe.

nomadiccoder May 6, 2021 View on HN

The whole thing was not created by an anonymous developer 10 years ago. The building blocks used in bitcoin have been around for many years before this in things like hashcash. Furthermore distributed consensus is a topic researched for decades. The term cryptocurrency uses crypto as a base which has been researched for centuries. Bitcoin is a novel constuction around crypto primatives relying on economic incentive to solve distributed consensus. There are clearly domain experts here.

tootie Oct 29, 2018 View on HN

Bitcoin/crypto was designed with express intent of allowing financial transactions to be safe and trustworthy without a central broker (ie a bank). Since the value of a coin was essentially arbitrary, speculators with big graphics cards drove the price up leading a bubble which has attracted the sharks and now the whales. I haven't seen any major breakthroughs in the technology, but there has been innovation in the usage of coins from simple currency to investment securities. Arguably

tor12 Feb 15, 2021 View on HN

do you really believe that bitcoin or similar is not superior in this use case than whatever they did back then?

mrkramer Dec 2, 2021 View on HN

Read Bitcoin whitepaper. Bitcoin was meant to decentralize trust and to eradicate fraud through transparent decentralized database called Blockchain. It is certainly more impactful than hobby search engines taking in consideration Bitcoin was also hobby project but really revolutionary one.Go search what Larry Page said 20 years ago: If innovation is commercially successful it can have more widespread impact.

blueprint Jan 25, 2022 View on HN

that is virtually the only thing bitcoin was invented to solve.

raziel2701 Mar 2, 2021 View on HN

What problem did bitcoin solve?

hanniabu Apr 25, 2024 View on HN

They said it's not> We have something much older then Bitcoinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159144