The debate whether Bitcoin should be viewed as a database or a cash system goes back to the release of the white paper btw.
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014848.html
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Bitcoin is a chimera. If you think Bitcoin is only one thing, you're either ignorant or delusional.
You are either misunderstanding or misrepresenting the historical discussion. Quoting your own opinions in your own book is not a valid reference.
Nowhere in that mailing list exchange are they and Hal discussing the term "database" as anything more than a placeholder for "chain of blocks" Later, the term "blockchain" was born to differentiate between a traditional database with replication features.
An acceptable working term at the time for casual discussion was "database", but no part of that word was being used to propose storing bullshit in the "database" (blockchain) by any serious early contributor.
Time is a flat circle
I like to call it a ‘ledgister’ - ledger and register.
Money is data
Honestly. Makes me think about the debate about the sex of the angels.
In the whitepaper satoshi only made a technical description. In the following emails he also released the political side of the instrument
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