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"Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, T o wake the morn, and sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right." The Timestamping Cypherpunks we always โ‚ฟased. image
Cypherpunk legends Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph C Merkle revolutionized the field of cryptography in the 1970s by introducing the concept of public-key cryptography, The bedrock of Bitcoin today. image
I got this unopened in it's original packaging today, 1st edition 2005 Print of "Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security" This was likely the book that inspired Satoshi's understanding of Timestamp Servers and Bitcoin... more to come on that eventually. image
Fun fact, "Block Chain" was coined by Hal Finney in a response to Satoshi on the Cryptography Mailing List. Satoshi liked the term so much, he modified the code notes of the Bitcoin v0.1 client, swapping all mentions of "Timechain" for "Block Chain" (except for one Timechain comment).
There's reasonable and unreasonable positions on Both sides of the spam debate-discourse. There's more incongruence in the pro-spam rhetoric. There's more slander of characters in the anti-spam camp. But a lot of that is well earned. Some of it isn't.
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