The 130-page report reminds me of those old Coca-Cola ads that promised to cure everything from headaches to exhaustion. The ads worked because nobody really knew what was in a Coke bottle.

I would have thought it was the coca.

Similarly, the term “blockchain” has been so misappropriated that no one knows what it means anymore.

Thankfully, those who no longer know can just grab the paper at bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf and get a refresher.