115: Before Satoshi

Bitcoin did not emerge from a vacuum. We trace the decades of ideas that made it possible, and revisit the early days when it all came together. Episode Links 🎉 Boost from the Web 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform 💳 The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling ⚡ Strike - Ultra-low fees, high trading limits, and easy loans. Show Notes David Chaum demonstrates electronic cash at the first World Wide Web Conference (1994) David Chaum and Adam Back reflect on DigiCash, Hashcash, and the crypto wars Adam Back explains Hashcash and its original anti-spam purpose Nick Szabo discusses cypherpunks, bit gold, and Bitcoin's predecessors Adam Back: Hashcash — A Denial of Service Counter-Measure Wei Dai: b-money Nick Szabo: Bit gold Hal Finney: Reusable Proofs of Work Satoshi's correspondence with Adam Back and Wei Dai Satoshi Nakamoto: Bitcoin — A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System Plan B BETA | Plan B 1 Just Getting Started | Plan B 2 Flight of the Butterfly | Plan B 3 Inside BitVegas | Plan B 4 To Mine or Not to Mine? | Plan B 5 Spending Your Coins | Plan B 6 Amir Taaki and Bitcoin 2013 Wrap-Up | Plan B 7 Then They Fight You | Plan B 8 Bitcoin Will Disrupt Big Media | Plan B 9 90 Days or Bust | Plan B 10 Be Your Own Bitcoin Exchange | Plan B 11 Bitcoin vs. the Banks | Plan B 12 Blame It on Mt. Gox | Plan B 13 Winklevoss Woes | Plan B 14 Bitcoin Must Comply | Plan B 15 Summer of Bitcoin | Plan B 16 Regulation Dooms Bitcoin? | Plan B 17 The Big-Picture Perspective | Plan B 18 U.S. vs. the Bitcoin Revolution | Plan B 19 Bitcoin Is Legal-ish | Plan B 20