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Who do YOU think Satoshi was? and WHY? Adam Back has got the Satoshi debate trending on X again, so I'm opening it up right here on reddit! I've compiled a timeline of significant cryptographic milestones that ultimately led up to the creation of Bitcoin. Read it, refresh your memory, and then **in the comments** tell me who **YOU** think **Satoshi** was and **WHY**: [1982](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature) David Chaum invents blind signatures [1984](https://www.cwi.nl/en/stories/interview-david-chaum-201cblockchain-will-decentralize-power201d/) Chaum forms cryptography research group at CWI [1990](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash) Chaum incorporates Digicash, built on top of banking infrastructure [1994](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back) Adam Back starts exploring primitives of PoW [1996](https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm) **NSA** Release How To Make A Mint whitepaper citing cryptographer Tatsauki Okamoto 1997 Adam Back releases PoW [1998](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Dai) Wei Dei publishes B-money [1998](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo) Szabo develops bitgold [1999](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash) Chaum liquidates and sells assets out of the bankruptcy liquidation. This forms a brand new company called eCash Technologies Inc. based in Washington, USA [2000](https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=len%20sassaman%20hal&so=date) Earliest identified public email threads between **Len Sassaman** and **Hal Finney** [2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2) SHA256 standardised by NIST (designed by **NSA**), later used by BTC extensively. Without this bitcoins consensus mechanism that solved double spending would not work 2004 David Chaum begins advising at KU Leauven [2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)) Hal works on RPOW 2004 **Len Sassaman** (rabbi@quickie.net) becomes