It is said that science precedes products by several decades While we are today talking about the Blockchain revolution, let's talk about the man who built the concept of digital currency. David Chaum, as we know him was a professor who created concept of vault system in 1979 during his doctorate.
Infact he held the first annual crypto and cryptology conference, called 'CRYPTO' back in 1980.
He introduced the concept digital cash on basis of blind signature and group signatures, a form of basic decentralised ledger which is the basis of Blockchain today..
He was so ahead of his time and i think this guy does deserve respect for being the father of Blockchain as i believe he is known
Maybe this is what you're saying dude they had a conference and then he went to jail and called him
" The GodFather of Crypto"But in that article, I didn't notice that he mentioned any crypto name, even Bitcoin, I didn't read that he mentioned it. It's like a proposal at the time when cryptocurrency was first discussed if I'm not mistaken.