Satoshi Nakamoto (a pseudo-name) publishes a design paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” through a metzdowd.com cryptography mailing list that describes the Bitcoin …
An interesting patent application… Neal Kin, Vladimir Oksman, and Charles Bry file an application for an encryption patent application. All three individuals deny a connection …
Computer science graduate Wei Dai arguably laid the groundwork for cryptocurrencies all the way back in 1998. His outline of the working of b-money, an …
Well over a decade before Bitcoin ever came to fruition, British cryptographer Adam Back came up with an algorithm that would prove crucial to the …
As an amateur scholar of economic history, Douglas Jackson had formed the opinion that a currency backed by gold bullion was superior to the fiat …
In 2016 David Chaum was dubbed “the father of online anonymity” by Wired magazine. And he could feasibly be heralded as a cryptocurrency pioneer, too, …
