This paper did not invent new machines—it taught machines how to agree without trust, and in doing so, quietly redrew the architecture of power in the digital age.
Discussion
I'D LIKE THIS AS A POSTER
Versions of Bitcoin followed this paper till Core 30. It's a shame.
U ride the Knots train? I support Core.
No, I've given up on Knots. But I don't agree with Core 30. I'm too tired to talk about it anymore.
Knots is more pure and focused, core is full of money laundering script kiddy’s.
They ain’t the core that people think they are.
I know because I know all of them, back to front.
Their agenda is money laundering, bitcoins agenda is bigger than that.
Tag a core apologist so I can hear their excuses.
It’s much much bigger than the public has been lead to believe.
El #whitepaper, además de ser revolucionario e increĂblemente Ăştil es hermoso
This paper is a worldwide constitutions which represents trust, honesty and respect to property rights. It is the constitution we have been waiting for centuries.
I have been harping a point that I didn't connect to the first stentence of the whitepaper until re-reading it in this post.
"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
It doesn't say "would allow all payments" it says "would allow online payments"!
Perhaps that has been subconsciously present since my first reading. Satoshi's opinion appears consistent with my hope for a future where we use gold and silver in person and bitcoin online.
I think the goal, of course, should be to allow all payments be made either way, and that would imply scaling up bitcoin. But with the support of gold and silver in-person it isn't strictly necessary for it to handle all payments, only online payments.