Satoshi’s Exercise for the Reader
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Satoshi’s Exercise for the Reader
The Bitcoin whitepaper is clear about Bitcoin’s core feature: it is permissionless. Anyone in the world can pay anyone by joining the peer-to-peer network and broadcasting a transaction. Proof of Work consensus even empowers anybody to become a block producer, and means that the only way to reverse a payment is to overpower everyone else […]
This post Satoshi’s Exercise for the Reader first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Gloria Zhao.
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