CHINA – 2023/11/03: In this photo illustration, the cryptocurrency electronic cash Bitcoin (BTC, … [+]SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Blockchain and Trust Blockchain hype has been subsumed by the AI hype in the past couple of years. Both these technologies are relatively new. AI has a longer pedigree, going back in concept to the Golem and human antiquity. Blockchain could be thought to start with hashing functions and distributed programming. Leslie Lamport’s work on distributed systems stitching together order in time and trust is necessary for the solution of decentralized trust and hence blockchain. So at least 40 plus years for Blockchain and 80 plus for the current forms of AI. Distributed computing to solve problems collaboratively requires a time order as well as a way to create a […]
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