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Re: Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Satoshi Nakamoto)
Fri Nov 7 12:30:19 2008

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:15:40 +0800
From: "Satoshi Nakamoto" <satoshi@vistomail.com>
Reply-To: satoshi@vistomail.com
To: Nicolas.Williams@sun.com
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com

>[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force
>monopolies ellided.]
>
>You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography.

Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new terri=
tory of freedom for several years.

Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled =
networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem =
to be holding their own. =20

Satoshi


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