10.3 Peter Todd was trying to invent Bitcoin, but he didn’t quite make it!
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Peter Todd recounts his failed pre-Bitcoin attempt to create a decentralized currency using distributed hash tables, identifying his core mistake: overemphasizing proof-of-work minting while neglecting historical state verification. He contrasts this with Bitcoin's actual design, which prioritizes verification of the entire transaction history. Todd notes that academic consensus research made the

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