What Was The Reaction Of The Bitcoin White Paper Upon Its Release?
Pete Rizzo and Dan Held discuss the release of the Bitcoin white paper and how the cypherpunk community responded to Satoshi Nakamoto’s idea.This is a recording of a recent Twitter Spaces conversation about the Bitcoin white paper and what it means to the Bitcoin community. Listen To This Twitter Spaces:AppleSpotifyGoogleLibsynDan Held: Let’s touch on some of your other bullets. The initial reception was kind of — I was always very curious about that. Just seeing people’s first reactions. Pete Rizzo: I actually read through the cypherpunk list like fairly linearly....
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