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June 01, 2018, 12:00:03 PM
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Hy guys,
I'm studying a nakamoto's wp.
You can find it here:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

I don't understand when he say this:

"We define an electronic coin as a chain of digital signatures. Each owner transfers the coin to the
next by digitally signing a hash of the previous transaction and the public key of the next owner
and adding these to the end of the coin. A payee can verify the signatures to verify the chain of
ownership"

And follows this picture:



How a payee can verify the signatures if in transaction there isn't a public key of  previus owner?

Maybe, but isnt write, there is a pointer to the previus transaction where i read the public key and all transaction for calculate the hash?

Thank you guys


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