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olalonde on March 2, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin Is Time

> Bitcoin proponents are becoming more and more insane.

Don't give them too much credit. The notion of time in distributed systems has been defined "insanely" since at least 1978[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamp

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