Electronic money
Charles Lindsey
chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Fri Dec 5 19:32:40 GMT 2014
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 16:31:09 -0000, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> I think it is fundamental that if you want to prevent double spending you
> have to have reference to some central body.
>
> If you think Bitcoin avoids that then you should read my writings on
> Bitcoin - because it doesn't. :-)
But Bitcoin Does have a central body. It is just that it is a distributed
Body - anybody can participate as a member of it, and the cryptography is
cunningly arranged that all copies of the "ledger" are provably identical.
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