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-== Appendix: Bitcoin financial services
+== Bitcoin financial services
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-This appendix describes the main financial services offered in the bitcoin economy, comparing them to traditional financial services that are already familiar to consumers. It's not a list of sites or companies, as that would go stale immediately. Instead it is a list of service primitives with examples of existing implementations. For example, an escrow 
+This appendix describes the main financial services offered in the bitcoin economy, comparing them to traditional financial services that are already familiar to consumers. It's not a list of sites or companies, as that would go stale immediately. Instead it is a list of service primitives with examples of existing implementations. For example, an escrow 
-service would be described as an archetype, by analogy to a real-estate escrow, showing the unique characteristics, use case and need for escrow in the bitcoin world. The escrow service archetype would be followed by two or three examples of well implemented actual escrow services, each demonstrating a capability unique to bitcoin.
+service would be described as an archetype, by analogy to a real-estate escrow, showing the unique characteristics, use case and need for escrow in the bitcoin world. The escrow service archetype would be followed by two or three examples of well implemented actual escrow services, each demonstrating a capability unique to bitcoin.
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-=== Currency Exchanges
+=== Currency Exchanges
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-=== Bitcoin market data services
+=== Bitcoin market data services
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-=== Bitcoin ticker, order book, chart and analysis services
+=== Bitcoin ticker, order book, chart and analysis services
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-=== Peer-to-peer exchange
+=== Peer-to-peer exchange
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-=== OTC and Web-of-Trust (WoT)
+=== OTC and Web-of-Trust (WoT)
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-=== Escrow services
+=== Escrow services
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-=== Monitoring services
+=== Monitoring services
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-=== Alert and notification services
+=== Alert and notification services
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-=== Lending
+=== Lending
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-=== P2P Lending
+=== P2P Lending
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-=== Securities
+=== Securities
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-=== Mutual Funds
+=== Mutual Funds
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-=== Angel investing
+=== Angel investing
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-== Appendix: Bitcoin markets and applications
+== Appendix: Bitcoin markets and applications
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-As above, this appendix describes services offered in the bitcoin economy. Each service is described a a service archetype which is compared to a real-world example familiar to anyone. The description of such a service is followed by real-world examples that express 
+As above, this appendix describes services offered in the bitcoin economy. Each service is described a a service archetype which is compared to a real-world example familiar to anyone. The description of such a service is followed by real-world examples that express 
-these bitcoin features. 
+these bitcoin features. 
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-=== Currency transfer
+=== Currency transfer
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-=== US domestic
+=== US domestic
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-=== Other in-country 
+=== Other in-country 
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-=== International
+=== International
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-=== Retail commerce
+=== Retail commerce
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-=== Physical (tangible) goods
+=== Physical (tangible) goods
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-=== Intangible products
+=== Intangible products
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-=== Services
+=== Services
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-=== Technology services
+=== Technology services
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-=== Re-selling and Cross-selling
+=== Re-selling and Cross-selling
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-=== Wholesale commerce
+=== Wholesale commerce
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-== Appendix: Bitcoin Protocol Structure and Conventions
+== Appendix: Bitcoin Protocol Structure and Conventions
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-Reference index of main protocol primitives, packet structure, opcodes, state enumerations, protocol mechanics, time diagrams and protocol validation mechanisms. 
+Reference index of main protocol primitives, packet structure, opcodes, state enumerations, protocol mechanics, time diagrams and protocol validation mechanisms. 
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-== Appendix: Bitcoin Transaction Script Operands and Tokens
+== Appendix: Bitcoin Transaction Script Operands and Tokens
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-More reference material as above
+More reference material as above
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-== Appendix: Bitcoin Cryptography Algorithms, Conventions and Conversions. 
+== Appendix: Bitcoin Cryptography Algorithms, Conventions and Conversions. 
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-More reference material as above
+More reference material as above
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-== Appendix: Bitcoin Meta-protocols: Mining Pool Protocols, Lightweight Client Protocols
+== Appendix: Bitcoin Meta-protocols: Mining Pool Protocols, Lightweight Client Protocols
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-More reference material as above
+More reference material as above