Bitcoin came out of a multiple decade long process where all the moving parts were already invented. The only genius of Satoshi was to combine all these parts.

Bitcoin came out of a multiple decade long process where all the moving parts were already invented. The only genius of Satoshi was to combine all these parts. See also Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree. By Arvind Narayanan and Jeremy Clark: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3136559