We’ve got to get rid of the middleman – Satoshi
Bitcoin is an electronic cash system that allows peer-to-peer payments without the need for a middleman.
Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, combined the two earlier ideas, double-entry bookkeeping and cryptography into a public ledger, the Blockchain. He then added a proof-of-work consensus rule that lets thousands of strangers agree on one shared history without any middleman. The result is a global, tamper-proof audit trail. Identities stay private while actions stay public and provable. The mathematics enforces honesty.
Bitcoiners are ... They believe in the separation of money and state and that … Bitcoin is money.