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Except Internet was in development since 1969 by the time it became available to public. Bitcoin whitepaper was released in 2008. Before that even the concept
by AnonNo15 11y ago
Except Internet was in development since 1969 by the time it became available to public.
Bitcoin whitepaper was released in 2008. Before that even the concept of cryptocurrency hardly existed.
- aliakhtar 11y agoThe technologies used in Bitcoin have also been in development for several decades, and by 1998 the first cryptocurrency was already released, according to a quick search on wikipedia.
- AnonNo15 11y agoNote the difference - "technologies used in Bitcoin were in development for X years" vs. "Internet as a whole concept of network of network was in development for Y years".
- aliakhtar 11y agoNo, the internet as we perceive it today, as a global network, didn't exist back in 1969. The technologies we use in internet today were developed back then, though. Just like they were for bitcoin (cryptography, merkle trees, etc)
- colordrops 11y agoThe technologies used for both bitcoin the internet have been in development for thousands of years.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Bitcoin whitepaper was released in 2008. Before that even the concept of cryptocurrency hardly existed. Digital currency was, as I understand, the application usually highlighted for secure (cryptography-based) distributed capability-based computing, as typified by the E programming language in 1997. Not sure if there are precedents going back further or not.