Still Searching for Satoshi: Unveiling the Blockchain Revolution

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A. LisdorfStill Searching for Satoshihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9639-4_3

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Anders Lisdorf¹  

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Lisdorf Consulting, København SV, Denmark

 

For millennia, humans had to establish a shared indisputable truth. In oral societies, this was typically done through rote learning and performance. A typical example of how oral societies established such shared public truth can be found in classical antiquity. The poets of ancient Greece, like Hesiod and Homer, are representative of a rich oral tradition. The verse was not an artistic outlet for creative innovation. Quite the contrary. Ancient Greece glorified the past, not the future. It was the ...