Readme file Jan 6, 2009: "Bitcoin is an electronic cash system".
Readme file 2022: "Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency".
May 9, 2022 Core maintainer @laanwj argues "What is Bitcoin is very much up for discussion, delete it."
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And so it happened that Bitcoin Core lost contact with the roots of Bitcoin. Here is where Bitcoin changed from a strictly monetary tool to a multipurpose database *also* to be utilised for sec data driven use cases, something that Satoshi disgusted.
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h/t @LapiuPepe for pointing me here.
Sources for the screenshots: BitcoinTalk (where original SourceForge files are posted), Github.
