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Be careful of linking to the whitepaper on the bitcoin.org site, they have contemplated changing it in the past. Best to link to the one on bitcoin.com: https:
by curyous 9y ago
Be careful of linking to the whitepaper on the bitcoin.org site, they have contemplated changing it in the past.
Best to link to the one on bitcoin.com: https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf
- nikcub 9y agoNice try but no
- Veratyr 9y agoThe content is exactly the same: > curl 'https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf' https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf' | md5 d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042 > curl https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf | md5 d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042 Of the two organizations, .org seems far more trustworthy. https://www.bitcoin.com/about-us https://www.bitcoin.com/about-us: "Please keep in mind that this is a commercial website" https://bitcoin.org/en/about-us https://bitcoin.org/en/about-us: "Bitcoin.org was originally registered and owned by Bitcoin's first two developers, Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi. When Nakamoto left the project, he gave ownership of the domain to additional people, separate from the Bitcoin developers, to spread responsibility and prevent any one person or group from easily gaining control over the Bitcoin project."
- ryebit 9y agoSatoshi Nakamoto even disclaimed that bitcoin.com was "unrelated", and that he/she/they registered bitcoin.org as the site they using to publish information. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88.msg806#msg806 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88.msg806#msg806