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A New Territory of Freedom
Fromsatoshi@vistomail.comTocryptography@metzdowd.comSubjectBitcoin P2P e-cash paperDateThu, 06 Nov 2008 20:15:40 GMTSourceCryptography Mailing List (metzdowd.com)
>[Lengthy exposition of vulnerability of a systm to use-of-force >monopolies ellided.] > >You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography. Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. Governments are good at cutting off the heads of a centrally controlled networks like Napster, but pure P2P networks like Gnutella and Tor seem to be holding their own. Satoshi
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A rare glimpse of Satoshi the cypherpunk, not the engineer. Told that "you will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography," he concedes the point but reframes it: "we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years." Code as quiet resistance.