implementation

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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.

November 17, 2008 Cryptography Mailing List 18 messages

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ James A. Donald

Satoshi describes the inventory-based broadcast mechanism where nodes exchange hash lists of new blocks and transactions, and notes that the source code will be released soon after a year and a half of development.

implementation

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

Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper