Father of Blockchain

[PawGo]

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People of past eras would carve rocks into the shape of coins, in a proof of work format, to facilitate trade.

interesting, do you have any link to the source/document/scientific paper which describes it? Were rocks really used for trading?
Do you know which region this photo comes from?

They are from the island nation of Yap. Hard to believe you've never heard of them before... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

Call me dumb ignorant, but no! In fact this part of science is really far from my circle of interests. But it is always good to learn something new, even about Micronesian tribes on bitcoin forum

[tjtonmoy]

the father of Blockchain as i believe he is known

Blockchain in totally different from what he proposed. Online banking is what I can see to have in common in his concept. We can use government issue currency and convert them to digital currency as a trading method.
As for cryptocurrency which you can use to do the same thing but better.
I would not call him the father of Blockchain, as he was not the one who created it.
Satoshi is the man, my G. If someone deserved to be called as the father of crypto, then it has to be him.

[serjent05]

Dr. Chaum is no doubt the pioneer of blockchain technology since he proposed a blockchain-like protocol in his 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained.  It is a blockchain-like but not literally a blockchain protocol.  Dr. Chaum is indeed the inventor of digital cash, the father of online anonymity, and the godfather of cryptocurrency.[1]  But recognizing him as the father of blockchain is somehow debatable.  As far as Blockchain history is concerned,  It was in 1991, when Stuart Haber and W Scott Stornetta described the cryptographically secured chain of blocks for the first time  [2].



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum
[2] https://www.icaew.com/technical/technology/blockchain-and-cryptoassets/blockchain-articles/what-is-blockchain/history

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Image link:  https://i.imgur.com/3rA5lQ9.jpg
People of past eras would carve rocks into the shape of coins, in a proof of work format, to facilitate trade.

interesting, do you have any link to the source/document/scientific paper which describes it? Were rocks really used for trading?
Do you know which region this photo comes from?

They are from the island nation of Yap. Hard to believe you've never heard of them before... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

Call me dumb ignorant, but no! In fact this part of science is really far from my circle of interests. But it is always good to learn something new, even about Micronesian tribes on bitcoin forum

'Dumb ignorant'? Certainly not!
Guess it's more of generational thing... Yapstones is just a tiny bit of - odd - random info I picked up when reading the Riply's Believe it or not clips in the Sunday comics when I was a kid back in the 60's...

Nice little article about the stones being 'the original bitcoin' https://www.sciencealert.com/the-original-bitcoin-still-exists-as-giant-stone-money-on-a-tiny-pacific-island. In this case the blockchain is the communal knowledge of each stones ownership history.

At a glance, these massive, heavy stone monuments (which are often taller than the people who own them) might not seem like they have a lot in common with a digital system of value that is encrypted, intangible, and basically invisible to human senses.

But that physical contrast masks the stunning shared feature of bitcoin and rai – both forms of currency depend upon a public, community ledger system, that provides transparency about transactions, as well as security, and all without needing a centralised bank structure.