The Bitcoin whitepaper was released by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto exactly 14 years ago, on October 31, 2008. They shared the nine-page document under the permissive free software MIT license for anyone to access. However, just last year a UK court forced a website to take it down for infringing copyright.

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