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What Satoshi Did Not Know

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Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2015)

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When Bitcoin was invented six years ago (cf. [8]), Barack Obama had just been inaugurated president and Lady Gaga had just released her first big single.

G. Andresen — I would like to thank Malte Möser for his help in preparing this transcript.

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Andresen, G. (2015). What Satoshi Did Not Know. In: Böhme, R., Okamoto, T. (eds) Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47854-7_1

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