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Before Bitcoin Pt.1— 70s “Public Key Saga”
The Cypherpunks were interested in harnessing cryptographic tools to build anonymous communication networks and markets without government censorship.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) • A Political History of DAOs
In Part Two, I will be exploring his continued work on public key cryptography and his research on the need for anonymous communications, payments and decentralised services. His ideas would go on to seed the movement of cypherpunks, the movement that would go on to create TOR, Bit Torrent, Wikileaks and of course: Bitcoin.What is decentralized? Wh... See more
Peter Yuan Pan • Before Bitcoin Pt.2—80s “The Origins of Decentralisation”
To connect the dots, the “iPhone 1.0” of the Web3 ecosystem was Bitcoin, first conceptualized in 2008 as a decentralized, alternative banking system – and then rolled out via the first blockchain in 2009.
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
The first decade of crypto was about finding our footing. We saw the highs and lows of an emerging asset class and a (still developing) smart contract ecosystem.
Kinjal Shah • Crypto's Consumer Era
Public key cryptography, or the use of encryption to secure information against unwanted access by third parties, was discovered in 1973. Research on and access to encryption technologies were highly embargoed.