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Bitcoin’s breakthrough wasn’t in technology, it was in game theory. The technology underlying BTC, the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a>, is really just a fancy term for “a shared list of transactions”. Yes, really. What was truly revolutionary about <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/bitcoin" target="_blank">bitcoin</a> was <strong>aligning the incentives</strong> of miners, users, and developers <em>financially</em>. Everybody does the right thing, because it is in their financial self-interest to do so.