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Can you give some examples?

791, 793, 4271, 8446, 2246, 821, and more, I'm sure.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt

the thing that lets us communicate like this :)

That's not quite right. If I recall correctly, HTTP predates the HTTP RFC by a few years. I agree that HTTP was more impactful than Bitcoin but I'm not sure about the RFC itself. Maybe.

That's the norm for an RFC. It rarely defines something new; it's a formalization of what's starting to occur to ensure interoperability.

And really, the RFC comment is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The idea that the bitcoin whitepaper is some holy document, or even anywhere near the "top 100 non-literary" documents created by humans is profoundly stupid.

If someone genuinely believes that, I need to talk with them synchronously to try and figure out where, exactly, it ranks. Obviously ahead of the Rosetta Stone and the Treaty of Versailles, but does it beat out the Magna Carta?

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