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Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered
COINDESK · NEW YORK — 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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- 31 October 2026 · 18:00 UTC
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- 31 October 2026 · 18:15 UTC
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- https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2026/10/31/bitcoin-s-white-paper-turns-18-and-small-businesses-are-still-paying-for-the-bailouts-it-answered
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