Whitepaper Reading Club - Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Lite Reading: The Bitcoin Whitepaper with Roostock Collective.
📝 On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin Whitepaper amid the Global Financial Crisis. 18 years later, the ecosystem has grown enormously, yet many of the problems Bitcoin sought to address still remain and is becoming more serious. We've read 100+ papers, but few have had greater impact than Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. We’ll (re)read the original paper together and ask: What remains relevant? What no longer makes sense? What did Satoshi get wrong — and what did he foresee? And 18 years later, what have we forgotten?
Paper Link: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Note: This will be a chilled discussion, also a gathering of friends.
Format
Short introduction and context setting to start.
A short walkthrough of the paper and its key ideas.
Questions and discussion grounded in the original source.
Moderator-led discussion with no promotions.
📍 Location
5 mins walk from Marina Bay Sands.
🙏 Rootstock Collective
Rootstock Collective is a community-governed DAO supporting the growth of Bitcoin’s programmable economy through Rootstock. The Collective connects builders and backers, enabling the community to stake RIF, fund and support projects, participate in governance, and earn rewards while helping grow applications and infrastructure built on Bitcoin.
About Whitepaper Reading Club
We are a community of founders, researchers, and builders across Singapore, Malaysia, San Francisco, Bangkok, New York, Lagos, Taipei, and Hong Kong. We meet in person every month to read, discuss, and pressure-test the latest blockchain papers, protocols, and technical ideas.
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We create detailed, easy-to-understand summaries for each paper and have held 80+ sessions since June 2023, covering Account Abstraction, Parallel Chains, EIPs, the Bitcoin ecosystem, and AI x Crypto. We are ecosystem-agnostic, not for profit, and focused on projects with technical, product, or social innovation.