> There is a saying about not being able to solve a social problem with technology. Bitcoin is the blueprint on how to do that.

What problem did we solve with bitcoin?

The distributed double spend problem.

I'm not here to argue that its a useful problem to solve, just that the solution is ingenious, and i think the methods used potentially have applications to other problems.

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The blockchain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

The blockchain isn't the problem. It's supposedly the solution.