Topic: Who predicted Bitcoin? (Read 2688 times)

Did anybody predict a bitcoin type system before it was technologically possible?

And similarly, does anybody now have any idea of how a currency could be more pure then bitcoin if only we had the technology?


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Episode 1 The Bitcoin Simpsons: The Simpsons climb Mt Gox (7:07)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duoyacLJpKI  or  http://vimeo.com/24718978

Neal Stephenson, read Cryptonomicon.

damn I guess that's a near guess but they didn't guess the name. Do that woolong thingy use blockchain too if it is then their prediction came nearer than what I think it is.

Ezekiel 7:19

Revelations 13:16-17

no one knows who predicted Bitcoin...

But i read in the book of bible in Revelation im just not exactly sure
what verse in revelation and chapter, it says that before the second coming of Christ
there will be one currency that can use all over world and then money will no longer be useful

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Maybe you are referring the the verses in Revelation Chapter 13: 16-17...

"¹⁶ And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: ¹⁷ And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

However, until the time comes, we can't be sure if these verses are really referring to the the digital currencies...

no one knows who predicted Bitcoin...

But i read in the book of bible in Revelation im just not exactly sure
what verse in revelation and chapter, it says that before the second coming of Christ
there will be one currency that can use all over world and then money will no longer be useful

I didn't predict Bitcoin, but I did predict an Internet based monetary revolution: http://www.anti-state.com/article.php?article_id=433

I just thought it would have been gold backed digital currencies like e-gold. Bitcoin or other decentralized cryptocurrencies beat those by far though. It looks like the monetary revolution is under way!

Did anybody predict a bitcoin type system before it was technologically possible?

Decentralized Money
Zooko, 26 January 2009 (created 26 January 2009)
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cryptography
computer security and reliability
I've been spending a little bit of time thinking about how gaming services like World of Warcraft and (don't-call-it-a-gaming-service) Second Life have succeeded where we at DigiCash failed — convenient, widely-used, programmable digital cash. A problem is that each of these new currencies are centrally controlled by one entity. This limits the scope of who will rely on that currency and how much value they will risk on that currency. There are ideas floating around about how to facilitate transactions between currencies, but this would not solve the problem. A plethora of competing centralized services is not the same as a decentralized service. Even if it were cheap and convenient to trade some LindenBucks for some WoW Gold, this would only lead us back to the equivalent of the modern nation-state currencies: mostly centralized (because of the Network Externality), heavily taxed/regulated/manipulated, and prone to disastrous failure. What I want is a currency which everyone can cheaply and conveniently use but which no-one has the power to manipulate. No-one has the power to inflate or deflate the currency supply, no-one has the power to monitor, tax, or prevent transactions. Truly the digital equivalent of gold, during the times and places when gold was the universal currency. See the BitGold idea by Nick Szabo and b-money idea by Wei Dai, and recent effort to actually implement something along these lines: BitCoin by Satoshi Nakamoto.

only a few people had read of the bit gold ideas, which although I came up with them in 1998 (at the same time and on the same private mailing list where Dai was coming up with b-money -- it's a long story) were mostly not described in public until 2005, although various pieces of it I described earlier, for example the crucial Byzantine-replicated chain-of-signed-transactions part of it which I generalized into what I call secure property titles.