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#Cypherpunk Legends

1974: Cerf & Kahn, TCP/IP
1976: Diffie & Hellman, New directions of Cryptography
1977: RSA Public key cryptosystems
1981: Ralph Merkle, Protocols for public key cryptosystems
1982: Lamport, Shostak & Pease, The Byzantine Generals Problem
1983: David Chaum, Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments
1988: Timothy May, The Crypto-Anarchist’s Manifesto
1990: David Chaum, Fiat & Naoir, Untraceable electronic cash
1991: Haber & Stornetta, How to time-stamp a digital document
1992: Cypherpunks founded by Hughes, May & Gilmore
1993: Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto
1993: Bayer, Haber & Stornetta, Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping
1996: NSA, How to Make a Mint
1997: Adam Back, Hashcash POW
1997: Nick Szabo, Timestampted database
1997: Nick Szabo, SmartContracts
1998: Wei Dai, b-money
1999: Massias, Avila & Quisquater, Timestampting service with no trusted parties
2002: Adam Back, Hashcash - a denial of service counter-measure
2002: Syverson, Dingledine & Mathewson, Tor project
2006: Julian Assange, WikiLeaks
2008: Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin: A Peer-to-peer Electronic Cash System (Oct 31, 2008)
2009: Satoshi Nakamoto, #Bitcoin Launched