No. Extremely few people imagined it. And Bitcoin, only its 2nd implementation, (counting RPOW as the 1st) turned out to be extremely valuable, vs. the vast piles of corpses of worthless micropayment startups that have been forgotten over the years. https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-ye-so-long.html …https://twitter.com/Fiskantes/status/1014253029112074240 …
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Replying to @NickSzabo4
I thought there were many attempts for some kind of digital cash, but most failed to solve double spend without central trusted party.
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These were digital dollars, euro, etc., not new currencies. And they weren't decentralized. Extremely different from cryptocurrencies.
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