Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper has been published in a book

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Here it is: https://ignota.org/products/the-white-paper





I'm not sure if this is well known here in the forum, but in 2019 Ignota published a book that contains Satoshi's white paper, a guide and explanation of it, and also some content from the early days of the forum:

Inside The White Paper:

• James Bridle introduces the historical trajectory of cryptography and how it gave rise to the blockchain.
• The original Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto.
• An extensive guide and discussion of the white paper by Jaya Klara Brekke that elucidates the fundamentals of the paper and examines how bitcoin has developed over the course of a decade.
• The appendix brings together a succinct collection of pivotal exchanges and dialogues in the early development of the blockchain technology from between 2008 and 2011.

The purpose of this little book is to explain how the blockchain works and why it still inspires. It consists of Nakamoto’s breakthrough 2008 paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, a guide to it by blockchain aficionado Jaya Klara Brekke, along with appendices, an introduction by James Bridle and informative essays parallelling bitcoin with the cryptographic work at Bletchley Park that helped the allies defeat the Nazis. "I want to make your eyes shine in bright-eyed wonder as you reread the Bitcoin white paper, just as mine did," Brekke writes. That’s the peril and pleasure of the book: her guide mixes the off-putting ardour of a doorstep God botherer with excitement over the elegance and unrealised potential of Nakamoto’s idea.

Here's some of the quoted material from the forum, and the actual thread is here.

Certainly, in December 2010 there was much enthusiasm from cypherpunks for WikiLeaks to link to bitcoin on their website for donations. In a fascinating thread on bitcointalk.org reproduced in this book, Mike Gogulski wrote: "Screw big business. Google, Microsoft and Wal-Mart can all eat flaming death as far as I’m concerned … where systems like bitcoin can be helpful is in making both government and big business irrelevant and obsolete."

Seems interesting, and I think it's great to have the white paper accessible in multiple different ways.

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Seen the book.  It is an interesting piece of Bitcoin's history, although it looks somewhat similar to a Bitcoin's version of the Bible.  Definitely a must have for someone passionate about Cryptocurrency or Blockchain.  Once something is on the internet, it is said it stays there forever but websites still come and go and Bitcointalk may not be an exception decades from now.  Remembering where it all started from is not a bad idea.

But still, there are many more books that are very important to Bitcoin and to Bitcoin's history.  There was a collection of free resources out there, if I remember correctly a book written by Gavin or Charlie Lee was part of it.  And while we are at it, it may not be bad at all to have our own personal collection of archived pages.  I typically save and archive webpages that are important to me for possible later use, and I have a pretty hefty collection of them right now.

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