No.55: David Chaum

A computer scientist and cryptographer, Chaum is regarded as the the inventor of digital currency with Digicash in 1995, plus ‘the godfather of cryptocurrency’ for his 1982 research paper of the first known proposal of a blockchain protocol, which complete with code, contained all but one element of the blockchain detailed in Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper for Bitcoin.

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