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2010-07-20 primary
📌 Satoshi names “Nick Szabo's Bitgold proposal” as a Bitcoin precursor
Nick Szabo
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Computer scientist and legal scholar; proposed bit gold and smart contracts
Described bit gold, a chain of proof-of-work strings with a distributed title registry. Satoshi named Bitgold together with b-money as Bitcoin's predecessors in 2010. The whitepaper does not cite it.
Joined: 2008-12-27 · Bit gold post on his blog (dated 27 Dec 2008) · unenumerated.blogspot.com ↗ primary
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Nick Szabo
2008-12-27 · via Unenumerated blog ↗ primary
The blog dates the post 27 Dec 2008; its URL says 2005/12
“A long time ago I hit upon the idea of bit gold.”