Hi, Ante here!

It's been over 13 years since Bitcoin was launched. And over the course of those 13 years, a lot has happened. However, many people aren't aware that Bitcoin didn't just come out of the blue. It came as a result of decades of work by dozens of computer scientists and cryptographers. Bitcoin was the first functional P2P payment network in history, but it only happened because of all the people we will mention in this video and many others.

This group of rebels who gave rise to Bitcoin are called The Cypherpunks. We'll explain how they got their name, who were the founding members and what were the ideals they were motivated by.

We will cover most notable crypto projects before Bitcoin, starting with DigiCash, founded by David Chaum, the very person who came up with the term "blockchain". We'll move on to Hashcash, which is the first system that used Proof-of-Work, Hal Finney's Reusable PoW and Wei Dai's b-money. Finally, we'll briefly touch on Nick Szabo and his project - Bit Gold, because of which many people still suspect that he is indeed the Bitcoin's creator - Satoshi Nakamoto.

Other than projects themselves, we'll mention two more people who made their respective contributions to the community. The first is Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP encryption, and the other is Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.

What ties them all together and what goals did they all fight for? Follow me down the rabbit hole to find out!

Thanks for watching!
Keep Mining! ⛏️



⏳ Chapters: ⌛

0:00 Intro
0:31 Hi, Ante here!
1:56 The Movement begins
2:35 The Cypherpunks Mailing List
2:52 A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
5:07 Bitcoin's role
6:09 Blockchain
7:04 DigiCash
8:04 Hashcash and Proof-of-Work
10:09 b-money
12:00 Bit Gold
15:01 Phil Zimmermann
16:08 Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
19:31 Conclusion



📚 Resources: 👇

📌 Data Encryption Standard (DES); academic.csuohio.edu
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📌 New Directions in Cryptography; Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman
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📌 Privacy Concerns and Consumer Willingness to Provide Personal Information; Joseph Phelps, Glen Nowak
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📌 The Problems of Privacy in the Year 2000; Harry Kalven Jr.
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📌 The Cypherpunks Mailing list; Eric Hughes
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📌 A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto; Eric Hughes
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📌 Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency; P2P foundation
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📌 Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups; David Chaum
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📌 The Longest Running Blockchain has Existed on NYT Pages Since 1995; Toshi Times
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📌 DigiCash; Wikipedia
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📌 Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail; Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor
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📌 Proofs of Work and Breadpudding Protocols; Markus Jakobsson, Ari Juels
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📌 RPOW - Reusable Proofs of Work; Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
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📌 Proof-of-Work; Wikipedia
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📌 b-money; Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
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📌 Bit Gold; Investopedia
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📌 Bit Gold; Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
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📌 Philip Zimmermann; Philip Zimmermann
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📌 Julian Assange; Britannica
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📌 What is WikiLeaks; WikiLeaks
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📌 WikiLeaks; Wikipedia
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📌 Indictment and arrest of Julian Assange; Wikipedia
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📌 Edward Snowden’s Tweet; Twitter
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📌 WikiLeaks is almost broke after Visa, MasterCard donations blocked; The World
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📌 How Bitcoin And WikiLeaks Saved Each Other; Forbes
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📌 Assange: Bitcoin and WikiLeaks Helped Keep Each Other Alive; Coindesk
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