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Yeah, which book are we talking about? Reamde features crypto heavily, but I remember having bitcoins at the time it came out.
by efnx 10mo ago
Yeah, which book are we talking about? Reamde features crypto heavily, but I remember having bitcoins at the time it came out.
- simonw 10mo agoI imagine this is intended (though if it's AI-generated "intended" doesn't really apply) as a reference 1999's Cryptonomicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon From that Wikipedia summary: > Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency
- efnx 10mo agoAh, yeah, I missed that one.
- nakamoto_damacy 10mo agoDigital Cash was invented by David Chaum in 1982, and developed by his company DigiCash in 1990. I read about it years before Cryptonomicon.