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[p2p-research] Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency

Satoshi describes Bitcoin as a foundation for programmable P2P social currencies, discusses similarities with Pekunio and Ripple, and explains Bitcoin's trust-free design.

Questions about BitCoin

Satoshi explains Bitcoin's scalability, the transition to transaction fees, the choice of 21 million coins, and 64-bit integer values with 8 decimal places.