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"Anybody want to help me code one up?" — Nick Szabo seeks bit gold implementation

In a comment on his Unenumerated blog, Nick Szabo asked for help implementing bit gold — the digital currency concept he had designed in 1998. No one publicly responded. Six months later, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper.

"Bitcoin, what took ye so long?" (Nick Szabo)

Nick Szabo discusses why Bitcoin took so long to be invented, the similarities and differences between bit gold and Bitcoin, and why 'nearly everybody who heard the general idea thought it was a very bad idea.'