The story of Wei Dai (one of the few people referenced by Satoshi in his white paper) and his ingenious idea behind b-money. The first decentralized digital currency. Pretty much a blueprint for Bitcoin. From 1998. (Oh, and he came up with Proof-of-Stake as well)

https://medium.com/blockwhat/98-wei-dai-who-dat-f93c4e4bcfc9



Submitted October 27, 2018 at 01:31PM by TillAntonio https://ift.tt/2CJdKKs

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