Well, Satoshi’s whitepaper is called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, so it’s pretty obvious what the author(s) consider(s) its main contribution to be. Arguably, the concept of a blockchain wasn’t invented by Satoshi (the idea of a ledger using Merkle trees of hashes existed before), neither was proof-of-work (the idea of requiring computation as a cost of performing an action also existed, e.g. to prevent email spam). The novelty was combining all that to create a currency system and the implementation. And the motivation spilling throughout the paper is very much libertarian and goldbuggy.
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I’m sorry but like why do you think Satoshi created Bitcoin, like what was the purpose of that paper?
V0ldek@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•My name is Sam Bankman-Fried, esq. Your *pro malo* attorney at LOLEnglish
4·9 months agoWould SBF evolve into Sam Altman or vice versa?
V0ldek@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•They Made A Crypto Shark Tank. It's Hilariously Bad.English
4·1 year agoThey were still early
V0ldek@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•They Made A Crypto Shark Tank. It's Hilariously Bad.English
5·1 year agoOH NO, I have TERRIBLE NEWS my new FAVOURITE SHOW got CANCELLED (probably by the WOKE MOB)

V0ldek@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•They Made A Crypto Shark Tank. It's Hilariously Bad.English
7·1 year agoOk now I’m wasted af and this show rules, this is the best fucking thing ever, gather all your friends and watch this shit, they hired the Mooch and someone whose credential is that they’re a YouTuber to not give money to people whose ideas are “what if X but crypto” like one of them is literally “what if water but there’s an NFT on it”
V0ldek@awful.systemsto
Buttcoin@awful.systems•They Made A Crypto Shark Tank. It's Hilariously Bad.English
10·1 year agoThe first Crypto Name they introduce is fucking Anthony “Unit of Time Measurement” Scaramucci and I got severe whiplash, I am not mentally ready to watch this, I need to refill my drug drawer
idk why but somehow the thing that tickles me most is that they submitted 1.2k files changed as a PR and didn’t even bother to tick the box