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Gradually, Then Suddenly painting

Gradually, Then Suddenly by Parker Lewis now online

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The Complete Satoshi

Between 2008 and 2012, Satoshi Nakamoto shared with the world a brilliant vision and the code to build it.

The Whitepaper

The original vision.

Emails

It all began here.

Forum Posts

Where an idea flourished.

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Library

Bitcoin was not forged in a vacuum. These works serve to contextualize bitcoin into the broader story of cryptography and freedom.

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The Memory Pool

Where ideas wait to be mined into the blockchain of the collective conscience

Bitcoin is the Great Definancialization

Parker Lewis

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Crash Course

A partial annotated bibliography of the Mempool, building the case for why bitcoin will displace all competing currencies, including altcoins, fiat money, and precious metals

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The Skeptics

A tribute to bold assertions

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Tribute to Hal Finney

Celebrating the cypherpunk and early bitcoin developer

RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work

See the original code and website

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Podcast

Recorded from 2014 to 2015, the Crypto-Mises Podcast featured discussions on bitcoin economics.

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