Bitcoin was different than those before it

Some like to say that bitcoin wasn't the first decentralized crypto.

Technically they would be right, sort of.

There were peer to peer networks but each one required some element of trust.

Bitcoin was the first or second truly trustless one, depending on how you time things.

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