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The Ultimate Guide to Bitcoin™
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The Ultimate Guide to Bitcoin™

by Michael Miller
October 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
240 pages
5h 33m
English
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6. Should You Use Bitcoin?

Who Bitcoin Was Originally Designed For

As you know, Bitcoin is a virtual currency designed by a bunch of militant cryptographers—a cryptocurrency, really. These folks designed Bitcoin to serve purposes of importance to them and their ilk.

If you read Satoshi Nakamoto’s original treatise (titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”—Google it, it’s on the Web), you’ll see that his primary reason for creating Bitcoin was to enable online payments ...

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