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efnx | 3 months ago

Yeah, which book are we talking about? Reamde features crypto heavily, but I remember having bitcoins at the time it came out.

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simonw|3 months ago

I imagine this is intended (though if it's AI-generated "intended" doesn't really apply) as a reference 1999's Cryptonomicon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

From that Wikipedia summary:

> Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency

efnx|3 months ago

Ah, yeah, I missed that one.

nakamoto_damacy|3 months ago

Digital Cash was invented by David Chaum in 1982, and developed by his company DigiCash in 1990. I read about it years before Cryptonomicon.