Crypto Revolution: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency And The Future of Money
Rock’n’roll history of Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
Transcript of Rock’n’roll history of Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency
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