Topic: Precursors to Bitcoin (Read 787 times)
There were a lot of crypto currency attemps before Bitcoin. Similarly. Litecoin is a copy from Tenebrix and people think its something original.
Great piece of research. If you can please update us with your research. It is quite interesting.
TBH, the actual research is not about precursors - but I want to give a (brief) overview of them if possible. My paper will be published hopefully soon, though.That's awesome please do share it in forums i would really like to read something with that depth. Good Luck.
Great piece of research. If you can please update us with your research. It is quite interesting.
TBH, the actual research is not about precursors - but I want to give a (brief) overview of them if possible. My paper will be published hopefully soon, though.
Great piece of research. If you can please update us with your research. It is quite interesting.
Precursors to Bitcoin
A reddit user posted a paper written in Feb 2008 (months before Satoshi’s) about double-spends using a P2P distributed network. Another white paper cited the paper, validating its date.
Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.0832.pdf
http://bitblotter.tumblr.com/post/79508955548/precursors-to-bitcoin
A reddit user posted a paper written in Feb 2008 (months before Satoshi’s) about double-spends using a P2P distributed network. Another white paper cited the paper, validating its date.
Paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.0832.pdf
http://bitblotter.tumblr.com/post/79508955548/precursors-to-bitcoin
I'm working on a research paper about Bitcoin, and would like to give a quick historical introduction into how Bitcoin evolved. I'm obviously aware of HashCash as a precursor to the PoW-aspect. Is there also an earlier system that used digital signatures to transfer ownership of "coins"? My impression so far was that Bitcoin "only" innovated in solving the double-spending problem. But looking around, I can't really find any earlier system where such a signature scheme was proposed.
I can find Hal Finney's RPOW proposal (although information is not really dense about it), but from what I found, this is more like Chaumian cash in that some central instance is used to issue and redeem tokens. I appreciate any pointers to earlier ideas that proposed already the signature scheme - if there are any. Maybe my feeling is just wrong.
I can find Hal Finney's RPOW proposal (although information is not really dense about it), but from what I found, this is more like Chaumian cash in that some central instance is used to issue and redeem tokens. I appreciate any pointers to earlier ideas that proposed already the signature scheme - if there are any. Maybe my feeling is just wrong.
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