Article written in 1997: Internet Currencies for Virtual Communities

[joey.rich]

I just found this article written in 1997 which argues the benefits of an "internet currency."
Check it out: Bitcoin: Internet Currencies for Virtual Communities

[ScriptDrop]

If only more of us had known what blockchain and crypto could do when this thread was started.

[gentlemand]

Internet currencies were planned and mooted all the way from the 1980s. Read up on David Chaum and Digicash. Bitcoin's an amalgamation of the ideas of many different people. It's kind of odd that it wasn't picked up immediately by the people in the know as it's something they all worked towards for so long.

[DannaWonder]

Crypto just waited the right technology and time to be release though