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Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered
CoinDeskSaturday, October 31, 2026 at 6:00 PM
RedScroll Brief
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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- Crypto
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- Why it matters
- Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk. 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. Watch liquidity and volatility around Bitcoin and Crypto — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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What happened
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.
Why it matters
Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk.
Background
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Timeline
CoinDesk published: Bitcoin's white paper turns 18, and small businesses are still paying for the bailouts it answered
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Economic impact
Watch liquidity and volatility around Bitcoin and Crypto — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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