Title: Pre and early bitcoin history Post by: kaggie on August 06, 2021, 04:53:13 PM (Original here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5352664.0)
- Early US The first decimal currency, "The Mint Act", USA, 1792: https://www.mycreditunion.gov/financial-resources/history-united-states-currency Paper money first issued in the US, 1861 The Federal Reserve Act, 1913 Keynesian economic theory developed, 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics Confiscation of gold, Executive Order 6102, 1933: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 reversed in 1974 Removal of gold standard, June 1933: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-takes-united-states-off-gold-standard 1970s The Crypto Wars, or limits to public encryption as a hold on from Cold War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars The Coderpunks, which would evolve to be Cypherpunks: http://www.toad.com/ (Example of toad.com email: http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.html) Public cryptographic algorithms, 1978: http://ocw.bib.upct.es/pluginfile.php/5337/mod_resource/content/1/rsa_base.pdf 1980s David Chaum develops idea of e-cash, 1983: http://blog.koehntopp.de/uploads/chaum_fiat_naor_ecash.pdf http://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/courses/BMEVIHIM219/2009/Chaum.BlindSigForPayment.1982.PDF S. Even, O. Goldreich, Y. Yacobi: "Electronic Wallet", Proc. of Crypto, pg 383, 1983 1990s 1990, B.Hayes, "Anonymous One-Time Signatures and Untraceable Electronic Cash," Proc. of Auscrypt, pp.294-305 Cypherpunks group starts, 1992: https://web.archive.org/web/20020603230702/https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.txt This includes Eric Hughes, Tim May, Hal Finney, Wei Dai, Nick Szabo, Adam Back, Ray Dillenger, & Zooko. Several of these embrace "extropism". Hal Finney predicts NFTs, 1993, Compuserve: https://twitter.com/justintrimble/status/1357098395110952964 David Chaum implements Digicash, 1995: https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/1101/6411390a.html NSA publishes "Anonymous Electronic Cash", 1996: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm (Julian Assange and Craig Wright show up.. 1996: https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1035162505293778944) Tim May proposes crypto based on remailers, 1997: http://osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/tcmay.htm Adam Back proposes HashCash 1997, implemented 2001: http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash Wei Dei starts b-money, 1998, http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt Liberty dollar starts, 1999, https://libertydollar.net/the-history-of-the-liberty-dollar/ Cypherpunk Forum on E-Cash, 1999: https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912&w=2 ; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205533.msg2149044#msg2149044 Anonymous replies to Adam Back, 1999: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23km92/potential_post_by_satoshi_nakamoto_in_1999/ Milton Friedman predicts e-currencies, 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MnQJFEVY7s 2000s Paypal, 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_PayPal Len Sassaman helps develop PGP, 2001: http://www.fastcrypto.org/vmac/draft-krovetz-vmac-01.txt Pecunix, an Panamaian e-currency based on gold reserves, 2001: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2014/5/cato-journal-v34n2-5.pdf https://www.mail-archive.com/e-gold-list@talk.e-gold.com/msg12834.html Matthew Gaylor, E-cash's feasibility, 2001: https://www.mail-archive.com/e-gold-list@talk.e-gold.com/msg04919.html "X" publishes on digital peer to peer currency in UK finance group, 2002: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/X (Julian Assange??! on the cypherpunks list, 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20160101223032/https://marc.info/?a=90366091900010) John Nash, Ideal Money, 2002: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1061553 The Digital Monetary Trust, 2003: https://web.archive.org/web/20031008175805/http://orlingrabbe.com/dmt_guide.htm The "Gold Age", Liberty Dollars, 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20131231234813/http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Millions-of-dollars-in-limbo-after-shuttering-of-digital-currency-site-Liberty-Reserve-_Saturday-May-25-2013 2007 The Amero discussion, 2007: https://imgur.com/a/9aRaGuR Wei Dei + Ted Krovetz, initiates VMAC, or hashing a key, http://www.fastcrypto.org/vmac/draft-krovetz-vmac-01.txt November 2007, Liberty Dollar raid: https://reason.com/blog/show/123553.html Spring 2007, Satoshi begins working on bitcoin. https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/15/#selection-115.0-117.67 Quote I believe I've worked through all those little details over the last year and a half while coding it, and there were a lot of them. eCache, a Tor based currency, 2007: https://www.scribd.com/document/27467097/Interview-With-Operator-of-eCache 2008 The Digital Monetary Trust, https://web.archive.org/web/20080905150703/http://www.orlingrabbe.com/dmt1.htm Nick Szabo, Bit Gold, 2008: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html Satoshi emails on E-cash, October, 2008: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/ 2009 Hal Finney on Twitter, "Running Bitcoin", Jan 10, 2009: https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=en Wikipedia entry created, March, 2009: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin&oldid=275832581 The First Bitcoin post on reddit, May, 2009: https://np.reddit.com/r/business/comments/8itlf/bitcoin_a_peertopeer_network_based_anonymous/ ---- Additional interesting things: also see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=875242.msg9674258#msg9674258 https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin-is-Worse-is-Better Title: Re: Pre and early bitcoin history Post by: NotATether on August 07, 2021, 07:50:38 AM https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History
I half-finished the list, I'll do the other half in a few hours after I run some errands. edit: address the rest of the historical entries too other than things that don't make contextual sense to bitcoin. The page is still woefully out of date though, now I have to add the recent events too. Title: Re: Pre and early bitcoin history Post by: kaggie on August 07, 2021, 04:35:27 PM https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:History I half-finished the list, I'll do the other half in a few hours after I run some errands. edit: address the rest of the historical entries too other than things that don't make contextual sense to bitcoin. The page is still woefully out of date though, now I have to add the recent events too. Oh hey! Cool! I made an account, so hopefully someone can grant access. There will be historical events that are related but tangential that could use its own history page (e.g. "End the Fed" movement). For later events, the development of litecoin and other major forks could be noted. I will put references and links in the forum, but think these can be pared to the relevant only. Call it an editing space while I collect info. ;) A few typos: "Feburary" in 1936; "an Panama.." should be "a Panama.."; and "2007Your Liberty Dollar Raid Update " should be cleaned. Cool, thanks! Title: Re: Pre and early bitcoin history Post by: NotATether on August 07, 2021, 05:29:29 PM I made an account, so hopefully someone can grant access. You have to request for access on #bitcoin-wiki IRC channel on Freenode server (you must follow https://freenode.net/kb/answer/registration instructions to register an account first). No one reads the request thread here anymore; I wonder why people still post there. A few typos: "Feburary" in 1936; "an Panama.." should be "a Panama.."; and "2007Your Liberty Dollar Raid Update " should be cleaned. Cool, thanks! Will update. Title: Re: bits and bobs (will add to this) Post by: kaggie on August 07, 2021, 10:03:16 PM 1991
"Universal Electronic Cash" by Tatsuaki Okamoto and Kazuo Ohta https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-46766-1_27 1993 "Untraceable Off-line Cash in Wallets with Observers." by S. Brands, in CRYPTO. https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.41.8411&rep=rep1&type=pdf 1996 Alan Greenspan: "We could envisage proposals in the near future issuers of electronic payment obligations, such as stored value cards or digital cash, to set up specialized issuing corporations with strong balance sheets and public credit ratings." https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/1996/19960919.htm 1999 The Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, which details an underground people with a digital currency Hal Finney, Reusable Proof of Work "POW tokens have been proposed as a form of pseudo-payment in several applications. One example is email. An email message containing a POW token would be relatively costly to send in terms of computing power. A POW token could then be a sign that the message was not spam." https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-0-387-35568-9_18 This pops up again on the cypherpunks list in 2004: https://cryptome.org/rpow.htm 2005 Ukash, an electronic money system, established, similar to prepay credit cards but with a 19 digit code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukash 2007 "Combating Double-Spending Using Cooperative P2P Systems" By Ivan Osipkov; Eugene Y. Vasserman; Nicholas Hopper; Yongdae Kim Quote "In this paper, we present an electronic cash scheme that introduces a new peer-to-peer system architecture to prevent double-spending without requiring an on-line trusted party or tamper-resistant software or hardware." https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/42681952008 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20100042841A1/en 2011 First bitcoin forks, tonal bitcoin and litecoin, released https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218388.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin November 16 2011 Largest bitcoin transaction, 500,000 BTC at $2.26 https://siliconangle.com/2011/11/17/500000-bitcoins-transferred-in-one-exchange/ Transaction ID: 29a3efd3ef04f9153d47a990bd7b048a4b2d213daaa5fb8ed670fb85f13bdbcf 2014 Email arrives from satoshin@gmx.com, Satoshi's original email, presumed as hacked https://www.coindesk.com/hacker-hijacks-satoshi-nakamoto-email April 2014 Gavin Andresen steps down as lead developer https://www.coindesk.com/gavin-andresen-steps-bitcoins-lead-developer 2015 Forum hack. I wonder if there are other references? My rating is not speculation. The forum was hacked last year, during which time, password hashes to all the accounts were leaked. Based on the length of time since your account was last active, it is reasonable to conclude that someone with access to the password hashes was able to figure out the prior password to your account. I don't think the original owner will come back for his account, however unless you got a signed message, the account is almost certainly hacked. 2021 Jan 2021 "A double spend" https://phemex.com/academy/bitcoin-double-spending https://medium.com/deribitofficial/was-there-a-bitcoin-double-spend-on-jan-20-2021-45bdbd178c58 19 Feb 2021 Bitcoin market reaches $1 trillion for first time https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/19/bitcoin-hits-1-trillion-in-market-value-as-cryptocurrency-surge-continues.html 6 Apr 2021 Cryptocurrency market reaches $2 trillion for first time https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/06/cryptocurrency-market-cap-tops-2-trillion-for-the-first-time.html Notable Deceased Hal Finney Dave Len Sassaman https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33618.msg420597#msg420597 Mircea Popescu John McAffee |