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A Reading of Satoshi’s Bitcoin White Paper

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The document that started it all, in audio form.

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.

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For this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads the document that started it all – the Bitcoin White Paper. Interestingly, this document was released under an MIT open-source license, available free to all.

See also: Bitcoin Developers Weigh the Costs of Defying White Paper Copyright Claim

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