Today is fifteen years from the date of the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper. A lot has happened in that fifteen years. Bitcoin went through the blocksize war. A nation state has adopted Bitcoin. We are possibly on the verge of a Bitcoin ETF approval. Bitcoin in almost every way is nothing like it was described in the original whitepaper all the years ago.
The network has grown, it has changed, it has evolved. On a social level, an economic level, and a technical level it’s a completely different animal than it was all those many years ago. I feel like on this day, every year, people tend to focus on Bitcoin as it was all the way back in 2008. People get nostalgic about the basic design with no mention of mining pools, or ASICs, or second layer protocols. This year I wanted to do something different than wax poetic about section 10 on privacy, or section 4 on Proof-of-Work.
In fifteen years more development has occurred on Bitcoin than one person can easily keep track of. There
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