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Bitcoin whitepaper (PDF)

Bitcoin's founding document, stored inside Bitcoin itself. The 184,292-byte PDF was split across the fake public-key fields of a bare-multisig transaction in 2013 — a technique that burns the coins it uses, so the sender paid real money to make the paper as permanent as the ledger it describes. Every full node has carried a copy ever since, whether or not its operator knows.