A growing assortment of knowledge related to the history of Bitcoin.

I’ve merged the bitcoin history site into this one. Now that I know how to use Minimal Mistakes Jekyll better, I can see how it makes more sense to have them in the same site setup.

Guy Swan - @TheCryptoconomy Essential Episods

Audio for Hundreds of Essential Bitcoin Articles. @TheCryptoconomy - Guy Swan….. These Podcasts are essential. So I made an index of them, organized by topic.

Mark Miller on Epicenter Podcast - (to be) Hyperlink Annotated Transcript

43 minute read

We discussed his visionary 1988 Agoric papers, which explored how markets could be applied to the world of software. We also covered how his view of smart co...

The Agoric Papers

40 minute read

This paper examines markets as a model for computation and proposes a framework–agoric systems–for applying the power of market mechanisms to the software do...

E Language an Object Capability Language

1 minute read

Modern smart contract systems should learn a lesson or five from it, most importantly, (object) capability security. […] it lets programs handle permissions ...

Down the @TheCryptoconomy Rabbithole

13 minute read

Audio for Hundreds of Essential Bitcoin Articles. @TheCryptoconomy - Guy Swan….. These Podcasts are essential. So why not make an index of their content, org...

The Birth of Rare Art on the Bitcoin Blockchain

4 minute read

Starting in October 2014, users on the /r9k/ (robot9000) board on 4chan began referring to original illustrations and photoshops of Pepe the Frog as “Rare Pe...

Blockchain and the United Nations

17 minute read

2010, the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development [CSTD] proposed the introduction of a technology-driven universal currency. A BitMint would...

JW Weatherman Inverviews Cypherpunk Legend

73 minute read

“As a quick introduction: by the mid 80s Tim was already famous for solving something called the alpha particle problem when he was working at Intel and then...

History of Permissioned Ledgers

4 minute read

bureaucracies are so heavily invested in the expertise and importance of local regulations and standards that it’s extremely difficult for them to cut the Go...

Smart Contract History and Related Resources

13 minute read

The capability paradigm is about access control. When a system, such as an OS or a website, is presented with a request for a service it provides, it needs t...

Before Bitcoin

6 minute read

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to kno...

Electronic Cash, Before Bitcoin

4 minute read

Each RPOW or POW token can only be used once but since it gives birth to a new one, it is as though the same token can be handed from person to person.

History of Cryptocurrencies

less than 1 minute read

This is probably the least developed resource on the website. I’m still busy picking up on all the pre-history.

Cypherpunks and the Crypto Wars

8 minute read

Phil Zimmermann was a key player in this period. The PGP software he authored was considered as munitions by the US government and subject to export licenses...

Bitcoin History

8 minute read

“The first recorded claim of bitcoin’s demise was in 2010, on a little-known blog that found itself posted on a record of ‘bitcoin obituaries’ collected by 9...

Bahamas: The ‘Silicon Valley’ of the Caribbean

2 minute read

Pristine beaches and palm trees are the first thing that come to mind. Of course, the Bahamas are also famous for their tax-protected off-shore banking. Howe...

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History Surrounding Self-Sovereign, Decentralized, Identity.

Starting with David Chaum in the 80s, PGP, the International Planetwork Conference, Agenda for Sustainable Development, GDPR, and Bitcoin to the Present.