March 31, 2019, by VB1001 on
bitcointalk.orgThis graphic reflects where the technology we have now come from in our homes, computers, networks, Internet, smartphones, virtual currencies, exchanges, to get here, many people have contributed their knowledge to the technological evolution we have today.
Some of them are very well known in Bitcointalk, thanks to all of them.
I have ordered the appointments chronologically with a link to the corresponding information:
- 1974 Robert E. Kahn / Vint Cerf TCP/IP = Internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite- 1976 Whitfield Diffie / Martin Hellman / New Directions in Cryptography
https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf- 1978 RSA Public Key Cryptosystem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)- 1980 Ralph Merkle Protocols Cryptosystems
http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf- 1981 David Chaum Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum- 1982 Murray Rothbard The Ethics of Liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard- 1983 David Chaum Blind Signatures
https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF- 1985 Elliptic Curve Cryptography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography- 1988 Timothy C. May The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html- 1989 David Chauman DigiCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash- 1991 Phil Zimmermann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann- 1991 Haber / Stornetta How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00196791- 1992 / 1993 Eric Hugues A Cyperherpunk's Manifesto
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49471136#msg49471136- 1992 Cypherpunk Founded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk- 1994 CyberCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash- 1994 Timothy C. May
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt- 1996 E-Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold- 1996 NSA How To Make A Mint
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm- 1997 Adam Back HashCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back- 1997 Nick Szabo Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks
https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469- 1998 Nick Szabo Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/- 1998 Bit Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo- 1998 Wei Dai B-Money
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money- 1999 Dot Com Bubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble- 2001 Bram Cohen BitTorrent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen- 2001 Distributed Hash Tables
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table- 2004 Hal Finney / Reusable Proofs of Work
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html - 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto / A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf- 2009 Bitcoin Launched Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_blockSource image:
https://twitter.com/bitcoinje/status/1091672330277961728Source:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126554.msg50395424#msg50395424
