- From: David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:45:19 -0500
- To: Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
- Cc: "Daniel.Buchner" <Daniel.Buchner@target.com>, "public-webpayments@w3.org" <public-webpayments@w3.org>
> de-constructed payment event what you call "legacy" is a centrally operated device or set of devices that uses "perimeter security" to control access to it. A lot of verbiage has been written about the engineering details of the Satoshi block chain system and its "mining" game, but one can consider a block chain system to be a perimeter-based system by considering the cryptographic aspects as creating the perimeter, which thought experiment then produces an interface abstraction that is the same: There are only so many kinds of entries one makes in a ledger, regardless of if that ledger is a distributed block chain, a main frame, a spined paper book, or a heap of fired clay chits with pictographs.
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