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    1. Donald McIntyre  ☣️ 🗑️‏ @TokenHash Aug 24
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      Donald McIntyre  ☣️ 🗑️ Retweeted Adam Back

      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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      Adam Back @adam3us
      Cypherpunks were always more interested in censor resistant global payment, than new gold store of value. Latter was just a means of deployment, attractive for being permissionless "no banking interface". /1
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    2. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Aug 24
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      The whole idea of having an independent currency, rather than just more private or censorship resistant payments for existing currencies, didn't exist among either cypherpunks or academic cryptographers until libertarian futurists introduced it. @adam3us

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    3. Adam Back‏ @adam3us Aug 24
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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)

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    4. Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Aug 24
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      Nick Szabo  🔑 Retweeted Nick Szabo  🔑

      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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      Nick Szabo  🔑 @NickSzabo4
      Libertarian futurist ideas about private digital currency & smart contracts, 1995-6 https://github.com/Extropians/Extropy/blob/master/ext15.pdf … https://hpluspedia.org/wiki/Extropy_Magazines … http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/nick_szabo/smartContracts.html … Articles by myself (#16) & @lawrencehwhite1 & Mark Grant (#15), reviews (#15) of Hayek & @GeorgeSelgin. pic.twitter.com/Bzt88cBxZk
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    5. Adam Back‏ @adam3us Aug 24
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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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      Nick Szabo  🔑‏ @NickSzabo4 Aug 24
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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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      • Silexperience Gabor Gurbacs Jeremiah James 🔑 ⚡️ jimmyhomma⚡️[LN adoption] ColorCombos.com Crypto Belmando RealityAbsorber matt256k1 Adam Back
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        1. de-cen-tra-liz-ed‏ @greg_not_so Aug 24
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          Nice reference to cryptocards 2 pages deep into it

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        1. SirCrypto‏ @SirCryptos Aug 25
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          Has anyone worked on the email/spam coin. Think it's such a cool idea!

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