top | item 46080514 (no title) 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. discuss order hn newest 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/CryptonomiconFrom 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.
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/CryptonomiconFrom 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.
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.
simonw|3 months ago
From that Wikipedia summary:
> Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency
efnx|3 months ago
nakamoto_damacy|3 months ago