> This is a lot of cope and ex post facto justification. First sentence of the original paper: > Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash wo

> This is a lot of cope and ex post facto justification. First sentence of the original paper: > Abstract. A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. […] * https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf