Bitcoin an outlier?

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Bitcoin was built on the work that came before it and I wouldn’t consider it v1

Harsh

How? Satoshi literally cited bmoney, hashcash

Ok, if you consider bitcoin as a "different design" of bmoney and hashcash. To me, a new design means a different way of achieving roughly the same specification. Since bitcoin solved the byzantine generals problem there is a huge leap - I would not call that a new design but a whole new paradigm.

What I meant was that the design parameters (finite supply, exact amount, halving time, difficulty adjustment mechanism, blockchain details like the merkle tree) are all still in place as laid out in the white paper

If we consider bitcoins UX, it definitely sucked. Many improvements since v1. We had to use the mining software to send back in the day. You could mistype an address and poof goes your coin.

Ok agreed