Bitcoin Prehistory Tree

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source: danheld.com

Most people think that Bitcoin was created in 2009, but story of Bitcoin is much bigger and it goes 40 years back in history.
We started back in long time ago year 1974 and important events are presented in above tree image presentation.
40 years of research, development and demand:

1974 Cerf and Kahn ''A Protocol for Pocket Network Intercommunication'' TCP/IP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

1976 Whitfield Diffie & Martin Hellman ''New Directions in Cryptography''
https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf

1978 RSA Public Key Cryptosystems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)

1980 Ralph Merkle ''Protocols for Public Key Cryptosystems''
http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf

1983 David Chaum ''Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments''
https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF

1985 Elliptic Curve Cryptography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography

1988 Timothy C. May ''The Crypto-Anarchist's Manifesto''
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html

1989 David Chauman ''Founded DigiCash''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash

1991 Phil Zimmermann ''Pretty Good Privacy'' PGP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann

1992 Cypherpunk founded in SF by Eric Hughes, Zimothy C.May and John Gilmore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

1994 CyberCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash

1994 Timothy C. May ''The Cyphernomicon''
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt

1996 E-Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold

1996 NSA, ''How To Make A Mint''
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm

1997 Adam Back, HashCash, DOS counter-measure w/ proof-of-fork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back

1997 Nick Szabo ''Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks''
https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469

1998 Nick Szabo ''Securing Property Titles with Owner Authority''
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/

1998 Bit-Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

1998 Wei Dai ''B-Money'' - decentralized database to record txs and using a type of proof-of-work
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money

1998-2001 Many onle retailer currencies in the bottom (Beenz, Floor etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

2001 Bram Cohen, BitTorrent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen

2001 Distributed Hash Tables, Video game currencies and markets era started
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

2004 Hal Finney ''Reusable Proof-of-Work''
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html

2006 Liberty reserve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
 
2008 Bitcoin Launched Whitepaper
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
 

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