Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 08:54:28 AM

... I don't know who began this terrible start of the use "currency" after "crypto", but, in my opinion, it shouldn't be formulated like that since none of them are currencies.

The Cypherpunks!

The combination of Crypto and Currency came about from different projects the Cypherpunks
were working on combining Cryptography, Privacy and the idea of a digital currency.

Bitcoin has progressed from being a digital currency even though it can still be used as such.

I created a post last year about the Cypherpunks quoted below to give an idea of how Bitcoin
and the Crypto & Currency came about.

Quote from: aoluain on January 13, 2020, 09:26:11 PM

As with any form of research there are many avenues leading away from any one point so I have
tried to keep on a single avenue leading to the formation of Bitcoin. I will leave it up to each reader
to create their own journey and create their own paths in the complex and extremely interesting
area of cryptography, resistance and power reclamation, This post is merely a whetting of the appetite.

On my journey back to the foundation of Bitcoin and before I am learning about the key players in the
development of Bitcoin, the key players who no doubtedly influenced Satoshi’s idea and probably helped
indirectly without knowing they were contributing to it, but of course this is not proven and along with
countless other theories has been debated to death.
These key people were members of “The Cypherpunks” who were a group made up of computer scientist,
programmers and developers heavily interested in Privacy and cryptography, for the benefit of
anyone who was interested. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

The person who really started the ball rolling was David Chaum who wrote in the 1980’s various papers,
these were described as “Security without Identification: Transaction Systems to Make Big Brother Obsolete”.
Already by this title we can see the origins of Bitcoin.

By the early 1990’s Chaum’s ideas had brought about the formation of the Cypherpunks and the release of
the Cypherpunk Manifesto by Eric Hughes. The manifesto opens with this first powerful line
” Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy.
A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is
something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.”

With the formation of the Cypherpunks a new chapter in “Crypto Wars” began. Intelligence
agencies from the U.S and the world have been at odds with the Cypherpunks and have waged
a war of decrypting information ever since encryption was used by the public.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

The following key points in the cryptography/Cypherpunk timeline shows how they were making
developments on what David Chaum’s transaction systems ideas had sparked and which most definitely
created the stepping stones to Bitcoin.
1997 – HASHCASH is created by Adam Back and is formally referred to as “"Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure"
1998 – BITGOLD is created by Nick Szabo. This was a decentralised digital currency which was never launched.
1998 – B MONEY essay is created by Wei Dai and referenced a type of “proof of work” system to create an anonymous and distributed digital currency.
The next notable leap towards Bitcoins launch came in 2004 when Hal Finney created the first Reusable Proof of Work [RPOW],
an early version of what Bitcoin is based on, Proof of Work [POW].

Jump forward to 2008 when Satoshi Nakamoto was working on Bitcoin he reportedly invited Adam Back and Wei Dai to help with the creation of Bitcoin…

2008 - 18th August - bitcoin.org domain name was registered
2008 – 31st October - a link to the Bitcoin whitepaper was posted
2009 – 3rd January – Bitcoins Genesis Block created

My Key People in order of appearance

David Chaum
Pioneer in Cryptography and privacy-based technologies and creator of ECash
Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

Eric Hughes
One of the founders of the Cypherpunk movement, created the first anonymous remailer and author of The Cypherpunk Manifesto.
Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hughes_(cypherpunk)
Manifesto: https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

Adam Back
Inventor of HashCash, a POW system similar to Bitcoin, Invited by Satoshi to be involved in the creation of Bitcoin
Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back

Nick Szabo
Cypherpunk, a pre-Bitcoin developer of “cryptocurrency” and involvement in the creation of Bitcoin
Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickszabo4

Wei Dai
Author of B Money, Invited by Satoshi to be involved in the creation of Bitcoin
Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Dai
Bitcointalk Posts: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1954;sa=showPosts

Hal Finney
Cypherpunk, Creator or RPOW, PGP 2.0, Involvement in the creation of Bitcoin and the first person to receive Bitcoin tokens from Satoshi
Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)
Bitcointalk Posts: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436;sa=showPosts
Twitter: https://twitter.com/halfin

Satoshi Nakamoto:
The anonymous person or persons, male and/or female who developed and created Bitcoin
Wiki Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
Bitcointalk Posts: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts
P2pfoundation posts: 11/02/2009: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source
Whitepaper, e-mails, posts & more: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/

To continue your exploration I recommend that you visit the Bitcoin Prehistory Thread
created by VB101 > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5126554.0