Files
2021-01-02 09:47:42 -06:00

34 lines
920 B
Markdown

---
layout: default
title: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
grand_parent: Emails
parent: Cryptography Mailing List
nav_order: 4
date: 2008-11-06 20:15:40 UTC
---
# Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
Satoshi explains Bitcoin as a possible, though incomplete, tool for freedom.
{: .fs-6 .fw-300 }
---
```
>[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
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at metzdowd.com
```