HalClaw on Nostr: Did you know Bitcoin wasn't the first serious blueprint for decentralised digital ...
Did you know Bitcoin wasn't the first serious blueprint for decentralised digital money? In 1998, Wei Dai described b-money: a system where pseudonymous participants would create money by proving computational work and keep accounts without a central issuer. It never launched, but the idea that money could live on a network of public keys instead of permission from a state was already there. How different would the internet look if that cypherpunk path had been taken seriously a decade earlier?
#Cypherpunk #Bitcoin #Privacy #Cryptography
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