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标题：INDUSTRY’S DREAMS AND FEARS FOR THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY
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作者：SCOTT RUOTI ; BEN KAISER ; ARKADY YERUKHIMOVICH 等
期刊名称：ACM Queue (Online): tomorrow's computing today
电子版ISSN：1542-7749
出版年度：2019
卷号：17
期号：5
页码：1-28
语种：English
出版社：Association for Computing Machinery
摘要：In 2008, an author using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto wrote a white paper describing Bitcoin, a new decentralized cryptocurrency. 8 Unlike past attempts at forming a cryptocurrency—attempts that relied on preestablished trusted entities for the system to operate correctly—Bitcoin’s design runs on the open Internet, with no one in charge, while maintaining tight security. While the building blocks of Bitcoin were not novel, the composition of these properties into a single system was a meaningful contribution, 9 and Bitcoin became the first cryptocurrency to achieve widespread attention.