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Mark Dolan's avatar

Enjoyable primer. A quality of good writing for me is to be able to make the complex accessible! I would have never read this without Substack GO. I have a couple of friends in a social circle who mine bitcoins. We ended up discussing it at a gathering. Long before the blockchain existed, the precursor was heavily regulated industries that faced mandates to manage their products for their lifetimes. Examples in my career were the requirements to manage and document the lifecycle of measurement of instruments in environments like nuclear power. Later examples were the requirements post J&J for pharmaceutical manufacturers to retain enough data to manage recalls of any conceivable product. A great example is luxury goods. The blockchain is of course many steps beyond that but is very interesting. I posted about the topic in a lighthearted post a few months back. If you are interested I would share a link.

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Kelly A. Moulton's avatar

Thanks for this Mark. I would welcome that link sir.

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Mark Dolan's avatar

Okay Kelly. So this post was after one of my fellow Scotch Club members (one of my hobbies) tried to explain bitcoin mining to the group I was familiar and decided to write it in an accessible fashion. https://markdolan.substack.com/john-madden-and-bitcoins

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Mark Dolan's avatar

Thanks for making a comment. I wish everyone who reads would do that because I just want to get better

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Daniel's avatar

Enjoyed this Kelly! I am a lurker of crypto/defi/NFT/DAO and like other's takes on the fundamentals until it really... sticks. Keep it up!

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Kelly A. Moulton's avatar

Good to hear from you sir. Thank you.

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