The Prehistory of Blockchain
Web3 Summit 2024 · 19 Aug 2024 · 25:40
Bill Laboon traces the prehistory of blockchain at Web3 Summit 2024, covering the cryptographic and distributed-systems research, from digital cash proposals to Byzantine fault tolerance, that predates Bitcoin by decades. He walks through how ideas that seem uniquely Bitcoin's actually built on cypherpunk-era cryptography research going back to the 1980s and 90s. The talk gives blockchain's technical lineage a longer history than the industry's usual origin story starting with Satoshi Nakamoto.
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From Web3 Summit 2024, hosted by Web3 Foundation.