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Before Bitcoin Pt.1— 70s “Public Key Saga”

Public key cryptography is a method for authentication that relies on a set of mathematically related numbers: a private key, a public key, and one or more signatures. The private key, which must be kept secret, can generate a public key that can be distributed freely because it is not possible to determine the private key by examining the public
... See moreSaifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

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?... See more
Peter Yuan Pan • Before Bitcoin Pt.2—80s “The Origins of Decentralisation”
The Cypherpunks Mailing List was a little-known ’90s email server started by three Silicon Valley misfits with interest in digital privacy.