115: Before Satoshi

Bitcoin did not emerge from a vacuum. We trace the decades of ideas that made it possible, and revisit the early days when it all came together.

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Show Notes

• David Chaum demonstrates electronic cash at the first World Wide Web Conference (1994)
• David Chaum and Adam Back reflect on DigiCash, Hashcash, and the crypto wars
• Adam Back explains Hashcash and its original anti-spam purpose
• Nick Szabo discusses cypherpunks, bit gold, and Bitcoin's predecessors
• Adam Back: Hashcash — A Denial of Service Counter-Measure
• Wei Dai: b-money
• Nick Szabo: Bit gold
• Hal Finney: Reusable Proofs of Work
• Satoshi's correspondence with Adam Back and Wei Dai
• Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin — A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System

Plan B

• BETA | Plan B 1
• Just Getting Started | Plan B 2
• Flight of the Butterfly | Plan B 3
• Inside BitVegas | Plan B 4
• To Mine or Not to Mine? | Plan B 5
• Spending Your Coins | Plan B 6
• Amir Taaki and Bitcoin 2013 Wrap-Up | Plan B 7
• Then They Fight You | Plan B 8
• Bitcoin Will Disrupt Big Media | Plan B 9
• 90 Days or Bust | Plan B 10
• Be Your Own Bitcoin Exchange | Plan B 11
• Bitcoin vs. the Banks | Plan B 12
• Blame It on Mt. Gox | Plan B 13
• Winklevoss Woes | Plan B 14
• Bitcoin Must Comply | Plan B 15
• Summer of Bitcoin | Plan B 16
• Regulation Dooms Bitcoin? | Plan B 17
• The Big-Picture Perspective | Plan B 18
• U.S. vs. the Bitcoin Revolution | Plan B 19
• Bitcoin Is Legal-ish | Plan B 20