Rock’n’roll history of Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency Elias Ahonen Future Blockchain Summit World Trade Centre, Dubai 17 October 2021
Rock’n’roll history of Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
EliasAhonen
FutureBlockchainSummitWorldTradeCentre,Dubai
17October2021
Public Key Cryptography- 1976
“Everycompany,everycitizennowhadroutineaccesstothesortsofcryptographictechnologythatnotmanyyearsagorankedalongsidetheatombombasasourceofpower.”
StevenLevy,1994TheCypherpunkmovementdevelopedamongprivacy-focusedprogrammersontheUSwestcoastinthemid-1980’s.Forthese“cryptoanarchists”,anonymousdigitalcashbecameanideologicalgoal.TheymadeseveralattemptsHashcash(AdamBack,1997),B-Money(WeiDai,1998)
TheCypherpunkmovementdevelopedamongprivacy-focusedprogrammersontheUSwestcoastinthemid-1980’s.Forthese“cryptoanarchists”,anonymousdigitalcashbecameanideologicalgoal.Theymadeseveralattempts:• Hashcash(AdamBack,1997)• B-Money(WeiDai,1998)• BitGold(NickSzabo,1998/2005)• Bitcoin(SatoshiNakamoto,2008)–realidentityunknown
“Havinganalyzedpre-civilizedsocieties,Szabofoundthatpeopleacrossculturestendedtocollectscarce,easy-to-carryobjects,of-tentomakejewelleryoutofthem.Itwastheseobjectsthatservedasmoney”
-AaronVanWirdum