Wei Dai's 1998 proposal for an anonymous, distributed electronic cash system, the first reference cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper and one of the earliest designs for decentralized digital currency.
Cryptographer, cypherpunk, and creator of b-money (1998), one of the earliest proposals for a decentralized digital currency and the first reference cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper. Also created the Crypto++ cryptographic library.
Pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin who published the whitepaper in 2008 and launched the network in 2009.
The foundational nine-page paper by Satoshi Nakamoto that introduced Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
Nick Szabo's 1998 proposal for a decentralized digital currency using proof-of-work and cryptographic chains, widely regarded as the most direct precursor to Bitcoin.
Cryptographer, cypherpunk, and creator of b-money (1998), one of the earliest proposals for a decentralized digital currency and the first reference cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper. Also created the Crypto++ cryptographic library.
Mathematician, co-founder of the cypherpunks mailing list, and author of "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto" (1993). A foundational figure in the privacy and cryptography movement that laid the intellectual groundwork for Bitcoin.
The foundational nine-page paper by Satoshi Nakamoto that introduced Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
Nick Szabo's 1998 proposal for a decentralized digital currency using proof-of-work and cryptographic chains, widely regarded as the most direct precursor to Bitcoin.