Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered

Reported by CoinDesk · Published 1 Nov 2026, 2:00 AM MYT (2 hr ago)

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Eighteen years after Satoshi published the Bitcoin white paper, business owners are still covering the cost of a system built on bailouts, and they can protect part of their surplus by keeping it in bitcoin, argues Onramp CEO Michael Tanguma.

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Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered

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