13 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto published “Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System” to the cryptography mailing list. The reactions were mixed. The first reviewer even commented that the system wouldn’t scale (heh). But Hal Finney saw potential in it and offered to help.
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There are quite a few significant details about Bitcoin that the whitepaper doesn’t mention or gets wrong. For instance, there is no mention of the 21 million coins cap. Also, Satoshi’s assumptions about privacy and mining decentralization were pretty naive/idealistic.