Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra.
This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk's "Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper" series.
I remember reading Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin white paper for the first time a few weeks after it was released. I also remember the phrase that really grabbed my attention:
"We propose a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server to generate computational proof of the chronological order of transactions…"Of course, at the moment, I thought, "Whoa, this can't be true. How can he possibly have a solution to the double-spend problem that is peer to peer?"