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Comment by lumberjack

Are you sure that was Bitcoin's initial goal? Or just speculation from early adopters?

In the actual white paper, Satoshi does not mention any of this, although like you, I do remember these motivations being used very early on. I don't know their origin, but Satoshi simply talks about non reversible transactions, in the context of payments over the Internet.

parent lumberjack 8 years ago

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