Post
Topic
Board Speculation
Re: I am predicting a spike above $3
by
Nagle
on 25/10/2011, 03:49:49 UTC
1.  the first sourcecode that prevents file copying while allowing public access.

Bitcoin's innovation is not that it prevents double-spending.  That was invented by David Chaum in the 1990s and formed the basis of DigiCash. Nor is "mining" new; that's from Hashcash in the 1990s. Bitcoin combines the two concepts. The end result is a lot like Digicash, but distributed.