Blockchain History

A comprehensive guide that provides you with a sound understanding of the first general purpose blockchain — Ethereum.

A comprehensive guide to the first blockchain — Bitcoin. Explore the history behind it, the technological foundations and interesting…

Explore the story of the prolific and legendary cryptographer and privacy activist Hal Finney and his idea of “Reusable Proofs Of Work”.

The fascinating story of Professor Emin Gün Sirer and his ingenious idea to get people to behave good in peer-to-peer systems — “Karma”!

Explore the mesmerizing story of Nick Szabo and his revolutionary idea Bit Gold. He also invented Smart Contracts. (And is probably…

The fascinating story of the privacy-focused Wei Dai and his idea for a decentralized digital currency — b-money (a blueprint for Bitcoin!)

An international arms dealer responsible for one of the essential building blocks of Bitcoin, the history of spam and Cypherpunks

An oncologist’s grand dream, lots of gold, Eastern European Hackers, the Secret Service and Islamic financial Jihad — all in one story?!

The fascinating story of David Chaum and his groundbreaking creation of the first digital currency — explore his firm DigiCash and eCash!

Ready to hike up Mount Blockchain? Get started by understanding what all this fuss is about!

Born out of the desire to properly understand the vast and sometimes cryptic lands of distributed ledger technologies, especially …