Aaron van Wirdum is the technical editor at Bitcoin Magazine. Finn Brunton is the author of “Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency.” In this episode, they tackle the history of digital currency. Topics include: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the motivations behind the earliest attempts to create digital currencies, and who was behind those attempts</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the Extropian philosophy and how digital currency was born out of it</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how the cypherpunks came together and eventually began implementing tools that would lead to the creation of digital currencies</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the problems faced during the development of digital money, from double-spending to privacy, centralization, and spam</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the development of a public key protocol and why it was so significant</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the characteristics of earlier forms of digital currency like e-cash, hashcash, b-money, and bit gold, as well as their differences</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">the original purpose of proof-of-work and how it was developed</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Hal Finney’s essential contributions to the creation of earlier digital currencies, and later, Bitcoin</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">previous implementations of blockchain and how Bitcoin came to reinvent and utilize it</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">which previous digital currencies come closest to Bitcoin</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">and who they think Satoshi Nakamoto is … </li> </ul>   Thank you to our sponsors!  Crypto.com: <a href= "https://crypto.com/">https://crypto.com</a>   Episode links:  Aaron Van Wirdum: <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronvanW">https://twitter.com/AaronvanW</a> Finn Brunton: <a href= "http://finnb.net/">http://finnb.net</a>   Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency: <a href= "https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179490/digital-cash"> https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179490/digital-cash</a>   Aaron's Bitcoin magazine series on the early days of digital currency: <a href= "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-how-david-chaums-ecash-spawned-cypherpunk-dream"> https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-how-david-chaums-ecash-spawned-cypherpunk-dream</a> <a href= "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-hashcash-or-how-adam-back-designed-bitcoins-motor-block"> https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-hashcash-or-how-adam-back-designed-bitcoins-motor-block</a> <a href= "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-if-bitcoin-had-first-draft-wei-dais-b-money-was-it"> https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-if-bitcoin-had-first-draft-wei-dais-b-money-was-it</a> <a href= "https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-bit-gold-szabo-was-inches-away-inventing-bitcoin"> https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-bit-gold-szabo-was-inches-away-inventing-bitcoin</a>   Aaron on What Bitcoin Did discussing the stories: <a href= "https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-part-3-bitcoins-pre-history-and-the-cypherpunks-with-aaron-van-wirdum"> https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/the-beginners-guide-to-bitcoin-part-3-bitcoins-pre-history-and-the-cypherpunks-with-aaron-van-wirdum</a>  Breaker Mag Interview with Finn Brunton about his book: <a href= "https://breakermag.com/new-book-reveals-cryptos-radical-origins/"> https://breakermag.com/new-book-reveals-cryptos-radical-origins/</a>

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