Public Key Cryptography: The Foundation of Bitcoin & Web3 🚀

In this monday mini-tutorial we cover a very brief history of public key cryptography, bitcoin, and the birth of public electronic payment systems with pseudonymous and decentralized mechanisms. We venture back to the early 90s to meet the cypherpunks and discover where bitcoin was first proposed. If you would like to explore this topic further a number of articles and book recommendations are listed below.

RESOURCES:
Bitcoin posted on cryptography mailing list: https://www.bitcoin.com/satoshi-archive/emails/cryptography/1/
Cypherpunk Manifesto: https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html
David Chaum's paper on Untraceable Electronic Mail: https://chaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/chaum-mix.pdf
Bitcoin Whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

BOOKS:
The Code Book by Simon Singh
Cryptography: The Key To Digital Security, How It Works, And Why It Matters by Keith Martin
The Mathematics of Secrets by Joshua Holden
Cypherpunk Ethics: Radical Ethics for The Digital Age by Patrick D. Anderson

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