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Re:Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf] by knight17 on Friday December 08, 2017 @08:55PM (#15883778)
That is my default assumption too, that I will not get what they are saying.

OT: This paper is produced using a wordprocessor; my PDF reader says it is produced by OpenOffice.org 2.4. The word spacing and justification of paragraphs makes me think that this is not LaTeX, nevertheless it looks professional. Tex experts have also come to this conclusion [1]. But is it the original PDF or someone's version/copy of it?

[1] : https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/306754/was-anything-...

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Re:Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System (2008) [pdf] by computerfriend on Saturday December 09, 2017 @12:04AM (#15884397)
It's the original. Satoshi used Computer Modern for the headers, which is kind of strange. I guess they wanted to give it the TeX vibe, but didn't want to use LaTeX for some reason.

If anyone wants to collaborate on a TeX version, let me know!

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