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a brief history of blockchainonce upon a time, cypherpunks got sick of needing to use extractive middlemen to pay each otherthey wondered how to get rid of these middlemen, but there was a problemwithout a central party they could trust, how could they confirm that the money they received was legit?in the physical world, we can confirm this because the bank issues the cash, and we trust the bankwe also trust physics, i.e that the cash that physically exists in our hands is really there and won't just sponta ...