From the BitCoin White Paper:

- Not double spending.
- Not trusted third party.
- Peer-to-peer distributed timestamp server.
- From one party to another.
- Timestamps transactions by hashing.
- Chain of hash-based proof-of-work.
- Record in a public history of transactions
- Small casual transactions (micro transactions)
- Payment system based on cryptographic proof.
- Protect sellers from fraud.
- Routine escrow mechanisms could easily be implemented.
- Chronological order of transactions.
- Chain of digital signatures.
- Verify by the chain of
ownership
.
- The earliest transaction is the one that counts.
- The proof-of-work solves the decision making.
- The honest chain will grow the fastest.
- Incentive make more profitable to play by the rules.
- Moore's Law, storage should not be a problem.
- Accept alerts from network nodes (WP Section: 8- SPV)
- Privacy: by keeping public keys anonymous.(similar to stock exchanges)
- A new key pair should be used for each transaction.
- Nodes do not need to be identified.


Not from the BitCoin White Paper:
- RBF (Replace By Fees)
- SegWit (Segregated Witness)
- Lingtning Network
- Taproot

https://t.me/BitcoinWP/406

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