What was your first memory of Bitcoin?
In the very late 1990s, two ex-Apple engineers introduced me to the cypherpunk push for “digital coin” or “internet money.”
They described a cash-like system for online commerce built on cryptography and proof-of-work, without banks. At the time PayPal did not yet solve cross-border payments, so the vision made sense. What I heard then matches the goals that Bitcoin later achieved, but it was part of the broader lineage that came first.
We had some very cool conversations.
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