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Clearly there's an association to Bitcoin and there are certain expectations by people when mentioning blockchain.

It's justified since blockchain on its own is a relatively simple data structure which on itself is not that significant. It's the composition of all the elements that have given the value and recognition to this technology.




Same answer here: the term "blockchain" didn't exist before Bitcoin. It has a very specific meaning involving a particular kind of distributed ledger.




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