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Pre-Bitcoin Digital Cash Attempts
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Before Bitcoin, multiple designs tried to create digital money, including DigiCash, Hashcash, b-money, and bit gold. Studying these attempts clarifies what Bitcoin solved and what tradeoffs remained unresolved.
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Curated resources (4)
- b-money (article) Historical overview of Wei Dai's proposal and its relation to Bitcoin.
- Nick Szabo: Bit Gold (article) Primary proposal for bit gold, a key precursor concept.
- Hashcash (article) Background on proof-of-work used in anti-spam and later adapted by Bitcoin.
- DigiCash (article) Early private digital cash system and its centralization tradeoffs.
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