While the paper is certainly well-written and reader-friendly, I politely disagree that understanding how it works is simple. Even understanding digital signatu

While the paper is certainly well-written and reader-friendly, I politely disagree that understanding how it works is simple. Even understanding digital signatures is hardly simple, and that's merely a small subcomponent of the bitcoin system. Moreover, there's not much point in saying things like that to people who are trying to learn, as it adds nothing except to suggest that if someone doesn't understand this easily just by reading that paper, they might be a bit less capable than some of the rest of us.