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THE NAKAMOTO WHITEPAPER

The Bitcoin whitepaper is a nine page document, in the style of an academic paper, that outlines the technical details and theoretical underpinnings of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system called Bitcoin.

Bitcoiners (fans of bitcoin) are apt to tell a newbie to read the whitepaper to get started. But for this chapter we will be pulling a small selection of quotes from the paper to give the reader a general sense of that which was presented in the bitcoin whitepaper — in a much quicker-to-consume format.

You can find the entire whitepaper online in a litany of places, the original whitepaper is spread across 9 PDF pages. What follows is our read the whitepaper condensation of the Bitcoin Whitepaper — selected sections presented in order of their appearance throughout the paper.