No. There were hundreds of cypherpunks with different goals, ideologies and world views. • Digicash was the "payments". • RPOW, then BitGold were the "store of value + payments" (which are inseparable). The latter were the correct models and Bitcoin is designed after them.https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1165200774655369216 …
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Probably varies. For me I was more focussed on deployment than free floating value eg via people observing hashcash was like digital gold, and as a plausible way to bypass the permission and dependency on fiat gatekeepers, eg "ecash without a banking interface" (Wei Dai, b-money)
This predates those. (Of course, there is a great deal of cypherpunk/Chaum inspiration here, it went both ways). Later bit gold & b-money were both first proposed on the libtech-l list, something of an intersection of libertarian futurists and cypherpunkshttps://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1159254552572387328 …
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I wasn't on libtech but saw b-money when it was posted on cypherpunks. I think bitgold must have been at some point posted outside of libtech as I was aware of it pre bitcoin.
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https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html … I finally wrote about it on the web because Hal Finney, who was also on libtech-l, wanted to cite it, along with hashcash, as an inspiration for RPOW. Before that I could only give him a link to my origins-of-money article :-) https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.html …
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