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In plain words
Nick Szabo: 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.
Background
- University of Washington, computer science
- George Washington University Law School
- Smart contracts and digital currency
Connections
- Satoshi Nakamoto: Satoshi named his Bitgold proposal on BitcoinTalk (20 Jul 2010)
- Hal Finney: Hal Finney wrote that he corresponded with him extensively
In their own words
“A long time ago I hit upon the idea of bit gold.” (27 Dec 2008, via Unenumerated blog)
See also
- Satoshi NakamotoSatoshi Nakamoto: Creator of Bitcoin (pseudonym), active 2008–2011. Wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper (31 Oct 2008), mined the genesis block and released Bitcoin v0.1 (8 Jan 2009). Handed the project to other developers in December 2010 and stopped writing in April 2011.
- Hal FinneyHal Finney: Cryptographer, first person besides Satoshi to run Bitcoin, recipient of the first transaction. Cypherpunk and PGP developer who built RPOW, his own proof-of-work currency. He ran Bitcoin from day one and received 10 BTC from Satoshi in block 170.
References
- X · @NickSzabo4 x.com
- Unenumerated unenumerated.blogspot.com
- unenumerated.blogspot.com unenumerated.blogspot.com
- satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org
- bitcointalk.org bitcointalk.org