Bitcoin Books & Coffee: The Bitcoin Whitepaper

**Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System** by Satoshi Nakamoto is a nine-page research paper that was published to an online cryptography mailing list outlining the concept for an entirely new type of money. It proposed the Bitcoin protocol which promised to provide a trustless form of digital currency that was borderless, secured by cryptography, and operated outside of the control of banks. This is the inaugural Bitcoin Books & Coffee event and we are starting with the **Bitcoin Whitep…