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Satoshi explains Bitcoin's fixed supply of 21,000,000 coins and how it differs from David Chaum's system, in response to Martien van Steenbergen's questions on the P2P Research mailing list.
Satoshi explains Bitcoin's privacy model, comparing it to the privacy model of stock exchanges where the public can see transactions but not who is behind them.
Satoshi warns Malmi to de-emphasize Bitcoin's anonymity claims, distinguishing between anonymity and pseudonymity - a prescient warning about privacy expectations.
Satoshi warns that Bitcoin is not fully anonymous and that careful practices are needed to maintain privacy.
Introduced Schnorr digital signatures to Bitcoin, replacing ECDSA for Taproot transactions. Schnorr signatures are provably secure, non-malleable, and enable efficient multi-signature aggregation — making complex scripts indistinguishable from simple payments on-chain.
Introduced Taproot, the most significant Bitcoin protocol upgrade since SegWit. By combining Schnorr signatures (BIP 340) with Merkelized Abstract Syntax Trees (MAST), Taproot makes complex spending conditions as private and efficient as simple payments, while enabling more sophisticated smart contracts.