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# Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

The email on the Cryptography Mailing List that announced Bitcoin publicly to the world.
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Bitcoin 0.2 is here!

Download (Windows, and now Linux version available)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/

New Features

Martti Malmi
- Minimize to system tray option
- Autostart on boot option so you can keep it running in the
background automatically
- New options dialog layout for future expansion
- Setup program for Windows
- Linux version (tested on Ubuntu)
Satoshi Nakamoto
- Multi-processor support for coin generation
- Proxy support for use with TOR
- Fixed some slowdowns in the initial block download

We also have a new forum at http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/

Many thanks to Martti (sirius-m) for all his development work, and to
New Liberty Standard for his help with testing the Linux version.

Satoshi Nakamoto
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