The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.
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>[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force
>monopolies ellided.]
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>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.
