Cypherpunks Write Code: David Chaum & Ecash | HackerNoon
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David Chaum, who launched a conference on cryptography in 1982, pioneered digital cash and created foundational elements for Bitcoin, earning him the title "Godfather of Crypto."
In 1983, Chaum's paper "Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments" introduced a groundbreaking privacy-preserving financial technology that laid the groundwork for the development of digital cash.
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