[ExI] My personal "intelligence" failure regarding Bitcoin...

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 18:12:02 UTC 2015


On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:22 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Do you guys remember the idea taking shape here in the early 00s?


Good story, but Adam Back invented Hashcash in 1997, which Bitcoin is
mostly a direct descendant of: http://hashcash.org/ I suspect you will have
to look back even earlier, to the archives from 198x-1992. I have
everything after, but I think there was cryptocurrency things discussed
earlier.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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