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Nano: A Feeless Distributed Cryptocurrency Network

LeMahieu's design, first published as RaiBlocks: each account has its own chain, and the account holder is the only one who can append to it. Value moves by a send block on one chain and a receive block on another.

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Authors: Colin LeMahieu
Date: 2017
Publisher: Colin LeMahieu
Version: Source cited by the 2017 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0013
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — Nano white paper
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Canonical readingNano study
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LeMahieu, C. (2017). Nano: A Feeless Distributed Cryptocurrency Network. Colin LeMahieu. https://docs.nano.org/whitepaper/english/

BibTeX

@techreport{nano2017,
  title = {Nano: A Feeless Distributed Cryptocurrency Network},
  author = {Colin LeMahieu},
  year = {2017},
  institution = {Colin LeMahieu},
  url = {https://docs.nano.org/whitepaper/english/},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/nano}
}

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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