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Four documents, the same five questions.
No throughput league table and no yield. The cells are what this library is willing to say about the text.
| Question | Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System |
|---|---|
| What the text proposes | Peer-to-peer electronic cash ordered by proof of work. |
| Who may write | Whoever wins the work race. Membership is open. |
| What is settled | A public chain of cash spends. The paper is not a general contract machine. |
| Load-bearing assumption | Honest majority of computing power, and a network that delivers blocks. |
| What this library says afterwards | The PDF is still the citeable design. Lightning is a later channel design. Client history is not the paper. |
| Rights | Rights uncertain |