The Bitcoin whitepaper published 7 years ago

[benjyz]

The Bitcoin whitepaper was published 7 years ago yesterday. It is a good time to re-read some of it in detail. http://www.bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptograp ... 09959.html

I'll highlight a few things here which I think are worth considering.

Although little known Wei Dai had a big influence on Bitcoin with his b-money design. b-money is quoted in the Bitcoin whitepaper. I highly recommend reading the b-money article.

http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt

The last paragraph reads:

The protocol proposed in this article allows untraceable pseudonymous
entities to cooperate with each other more efficiently, by providing them
with a medium of exchange and a method of enforcing contracts. The
protocol can probably be made more efficient and secure, but I hope this
is a step toward making crypto-anarchy a practical as well as theoretical
possibility.

[benjyz]

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[benjyz]

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[bitkilo]

Thanks for the reminder.
7 years already, when you think about it this really has moved incredibly fast.

I would love to see this thread revived in another 7 year's and see where bitcoin is then.
Please post update from the moon

[LiteCoinGuy]

some say it is the birthday of bitcoin but i like to say the birtday of bitcoin is the 3.1.2009 (Genesis Block).

what do you think?



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[BitcoinXio]

some say it is the birthday of bitcoin but i like to say the birtday of bitcoin is the 3.1.2009 (Genesis Block).

what do you think?



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The first anyone heard of Bitcoin would be the whitepaper, which was 7yrs ago on Oct31 when it was published by Satoshi. The Genesis block was just a byproduct of his idea, which he presented to us in the whitepaper.