The first DVCS softwares were created in the mid-2000s. Linus Torvald originally created Git & used it to develop Linux. Although SN didn't use Git, the Bitcoin protocol employs a similar Merkle Tree structure, where miners timestamp txs with PoW hashes.  https://hackernoon.com/git-and-bitcoin-have-one-thing-in-common-e11d87b36302 …