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title: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
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date: 2008-11-06 20:15:40 UTC
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# Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

Satoshi explains Bitcoin as a possible, though incomplete, tool for freedom.
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>[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force
>monopolies ellided.]
>
>You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.

Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.

Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own.

Satoshi


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