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title: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
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grand_parent: Emails
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parent: Cryptography Mailing List
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nav_order: 4
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date: 2008-11-06 20:15:40 UTC
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# Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper
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Satoshi explains Bitcoin as a possible, though incomplete, tool for freedom.
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{: .fs-6 .fw-300 }
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>[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force
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>monopolies ellided.]
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>You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.
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Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years.
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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.
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Satoshi
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The Cryptography Mailing List
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