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Early USThe first decimal currency, "The Mint Act", USA, 1792:
https://www.mycreditunion.gov/financial-resources/history-united-states-currencyPaper money first issued in the US, 1861
The Federal Reserve Act, 1913
Keynesian economic theory developed, 1930s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economicsConfiscation of gold, Executive Order 6102, 1933:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 reversed in 1974
Removal of gold standard, June 1933:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-takes-united-states-off-gold-standard1970sThe Crypto Wars, or limits to public encryption as a hold on from Cold War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_WarsThe Coderpunks, which would evolve to be Cypherpunks:
http://www.toad.com/(Example of toad.com email:
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/10/msg00759.html)
Public cryptographic algorithms, 1978:
http://ocw.bib.upct.es/pluginfile.php/5337/mod_resource/content/1/rsa_base.pdf1980sDavid Chaum develops idea of e-cash, 1983:
http://blog.koehntopp.de/uploads/chaum_fiat_naor_ecash.pdf http://www.hit.bme.hu/~buttyan/courses/BMEVIHIM219/2009/Chaum.BlindSigForPayment.1982.PDFS. Even, O. Goldreich, Y. Yacobi: "Electronic Wallet", Proc. of Crypto, pg 383, 1983
1990s1990, B.Hayes, "Anonymous One-Time Signatures and Untraceable Electronic Cash," Proc. of Auscrypt, pp.294-305
Cypherpunks group starts, 1992:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020603230702/https://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.txtThis includes Eric Hughes, Tim May, Hal Finney, Wei Dai, Nick Szabo, Adam Back, Ray Dillenger, & Zooko.
Several of these embrace "extropism".
Hal Finney predicts NFTs, 1993, Compuserve:
https://twitter.com/justintrimble/status/1357098395110952964David Chaum implements Digicash, 1995:
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/1101/6411390a.htmlNSA publishes "Anonymous Electronic Cash", 1996:
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm(Julian Assange and Craig Wright show up.. 1996:
https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1035162505293778944)
Tim May proposes crypto based on remailers, 1997:
http://osaka.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/tcmay.htmAdam Back proposes HashCash 1997, implemented 2001:
http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HashcashWei Dei starts b-money, 1998,
http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txtLiberty dollar starts, 1999,
https://libertydollar.net/the-history-of-the-liberty-dollar/Cypherpunk Forum on E-Cash, 1999:
https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95280154629912&w=2 ;
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2149044Anonymous replies to Adam Back, 1999:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/23km92/potential_post_by_satoshi_nakamoto_in_1999/Milton Friedman predicts e-currencies, 1999:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MnQJFEVY7s2000sPaypal, 2000:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_PayPalLen Sassaman helps develop PGP, 2001:
http://www.fastcrypto.org/vmac/draft-krovetz-vmac-01.txtPecunix, an Panamaian e-currency based on gold reserves, 2001:
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2014/5/cato-journal-v34n2-5.pdfhttps://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12834.htmlMatthew Gaylor, E-cash's feasibility, 2001:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04919.html"X" publishes on digital peer to peer currency in UK finance group, 2002:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/X(Julian Assange??! on the cypherpunks list, 2002:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160101223032/https://marc.info/?a=90366091900010)
John Nash, Ideal Money, 2002:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1061553The Digital Monetary Trust, 2003:
https://web.archive.org/web/20031008175805/http://orlingrabbe.com/dmt_guide.htmThe "Gold Age", Liberty Dollars, 2006:
https://web.archive.org/web/20131231234813/http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Millions-of-dollars-in-limbo-after-shuttering-of-digital-currency-site-Liberty-Reserve-_Saturday-May-25-20132007The Amero discussion, 2007:
https://imgur.com/a/9aRaGuRWei Dei + Ted Krovetz, initiates VMAC, or hashing a key,
http://www.fastcrypto.org/vmac/draft-krovetz-vmac-01.txtNovember 2007, Liberty Dollar raid:
https://reason.com/blog/show/123553.htmlSpring 2007, Satoshi begins working on bitcoin.
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/15/#selection-115.0-117.67I believe I've worked through all those little details over the
last year and a half while coding it, and there were a lot of them.
eCache, a Tor based currency, 2007:
https://www.scribd.com/document/27467097/Interview-With-Operator-of-eCache2008The Digital Monetary Trust,
https://web.archive.org/web/20080905150703/http://www.orlingrabbe.com/dmt1.htmNick Szabo, Bit Gold, 2008:
http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.htmlSatoshi emails on E-cash, October, 2008:
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/2009Hal Finney on Twitter, "Running Bitcoin", Jan 10, 2009:
https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988?lang=enWikipedia entry created, March, 2009:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bitcoin&oldid=275832581The First Bitcoin post on reddit, May, 2009:
https://np.reddit.com/r/business/comments/8itlf/bitcoin_a_peertopeer_network_based_anonymous/----
Additional interesting things:
also see:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9674258https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin-is-Worse-is-Better