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The most important contribution in economics in the twenty-first century is the paper Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. It was published via a mailing list for cryptography in 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The basic idea of the paper was to create “A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash [that] would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.”
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Nakamoto, S. (2008). Bitcoin: A peer-to-peer electronic cash system. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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Berentsen, A. (2019). Aleksander Berentsen Recommends “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” by Satoshi Nakamoto. In: Frey, B., Schaltegger, C. (eds) 21st Century Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17740-9_3
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