Cryptocurrency – In Brief (in less than 3 floors)
(2009) Satoshi Nakamoto's innovation was to leverage the Internet, develop a protocol using the methods listed below, and incentivize volunteers to provide computing resources to run the protocol.
The computer science that underlies blockchain protocol:
(1960) Trie: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/367390.367400
(1968) Patricia: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/321479.321481
(1976) Asymmetric Cryptography: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1499799.1499815
(late 70s) Hash functions: https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/publications/article-1532.pdf
(1979) Merkle Tree: https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/MerkleTree.html
(1979) Digital Signature: http://www.merkle.com/papers/Certified1979.pdf, https://patents.google.com/patent/US4309569A/en
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