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		jiggy2011 on April 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoi... Assuming all this stuff (the original research) was published, perhaps it was a third party that just connected the dots?

jacquesm on April 14, 2013 [–]

It is definitely true that all the pieces were already there, and that bitcoin is more of an integration effort than a from-scratch design. And yet, there is a lot of subtlety going on there, more than I would credit an integrator with. This was no accidental affair.

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