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Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by nacozarina on Sunday December 07, 2025 @08:37AM (#46181592)
read the original Satoshi paper

all the 3rd party summaries/interpretations of this paper are problematic. Read the original.

Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by sigwinch on Sunday December 07, 2025 @10:21AM (#46182328)
I’m not sure the paper or the character Satoshi himself matter anymore. Once you have a preeminent coin with fiat power behind it, the details of a paper and the wherewithal to reinvent that coin more purely are irrelevant. Once a particular political family signaled that control starting in Sept 2024, keeping close to that family reassured you of a bailout or pardon.
Re:I Wasted 8 Years of My Life in Crypto by wmf on Monday December 08, 2025 @12:32AM (#46188735)
The whitepaper has some problems. Satoshi isn't automatically right and virtually no one uses Bitcoin/crypto the way Satoshi envisioned. Arguably if you judge Bitcoin based on the whitepaper it is a complete failure.