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Topic: 2013-09-08 Weekend tech reading: The man behind Bitcoin (Read 892 times)

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This is not an article about bitcoin. It is a list of articles, one of which is about bitcoin. The actual article is here:

http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/9/4/4660780/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto
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http://www.techspot.com/news/53925-weekend-tech-reading-the-man-behind-bitcoin.html

peer to peer: an oral history of Napster Like the birth of most great music movements -- Elvis on Ed Sullivan, Patti Smith at CBGB -- Napster was rebellious of convention, threatening to established norms, and, well, really loud. The tiny startup from Hull, Mass. launched in early-1999, grabbing the world's attention almost immediately. At its core was a clever-if-crude piece of software -- so-called peer-to-peer technology -- that allowed computers to easily send each other files over a network. It would transform the Internet into a maelstrom, definitively proving the web's power to create and obliterate value. Forbes
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