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== Introduction

=== Organization
=== Audience
=== Conventions

== What is Bitcoin?

=== A currency
=== A network and protocol
=== A distributed ledger
=== A transaction language
=== An API

== Getting Bitcoin

=== Obtaining the bitcoin software
=== bitcoin-qt, bitcoind
=== mobile client

== History of bitcoin

=== A brief history of money
=== A brief history of crypto currencies
=== Public key cryptography and crypto-currency
=== Peer-to-Peer networks
=== The history of bitcoin
=== Why would I use bitcoin
==== As a merchant
==== As a consumer
==== As a developer, integrator
==== As an entrepreneur
==== As an investor