David Chaum · life event
1995 secondary
📌 DigiCash launches eCash
David Chaum
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Cryptographer; invented blind signatures and ecash, founded DigiCash
Pioneer of digital cash and online anonymity: blind signatures, mix networks and the Dining Cryptographers protocol. His company DigiCash launched eCash in 1995. The Bitcoin whitepaper does not cite him, and there is no documented contact with Satoshi.
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Joined: 1982 · 1982: dissertation at UC Berkeley · en.wikipedia.org ↗ secondary
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David Chaum · life event
1989 secondary
📌 Founds DigiCash
David Chaum · life event
1982 secondary
📌 Dissertation “Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups”
David Chaum · life event
1981 secondary
📌 Paper “Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms”