An Ode to Clarity — Bitcoin’s White Paper Could Have Launched Sooner (and We Missed the Rocket).
When we read in the Bitcoin white paper: “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution,” …we realize that the very concept of peer-to-peer was, at that moment, directed at a community of technical specialists — those…