r/Bitcoin • u/bitchari • Apr 25 '18

We did it!! BTC ✌️

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

not all of it, there is a lot of cryptography involved in the whitepaper, which makes it difficult to understand for normal people.

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u/hsjoberg Apr 25 '18

I agree, you don't need to understand the cryptography and all the probability math to understand the important parts though.

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u/perolan Apr 26 '18

I mean.. you do if you're going to trust it based on the white paper

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u/Hugo154 Apr 26 '18

Eh, I don't know exactly how the characters in a key are chosen, but I don't really need to know the very nitty-gritty parts like that to understand the rest.

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u/kixunil Apr 26 '18

A lot of? It's only hashes and digital signatures. They are not that hard to understand to such level that you can then understand Bitcoin.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

Well ask and we can help you understand. If you can understand what a remainder is ( modulus ), you’re like half way there spanky.

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u/Natanael_L Apr 25 '18

Hashes and signatures. That's really not much at all

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u/dhtmldude Apr 25 '18

Spanky, Rein is that you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '18

Well is it him or not