Nick Szabo on Bitcoin

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Nick Szabo

Nick Szabo is a computer scientists and cryptographer. In 1998, Szabo proposed a decentralized digital currency called "Bit Gold." He also came up with the concept of "smart contracts", programmatic contracts that can be executed by code.

Bitcoin

Created by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

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Bitcoin reviews by Nick Szabo

All Bitcoin reviews by expert Nick Szabo.

  • 2020
  • Nick Szabo on Bitcoin Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts pioneer

    You can securely control neither your land nor your digitally centralized financial assets without the help of government. Thus the locality & importance of legal ownership in these things.

    You can securely control your globally seamless Bitcoin without the help of government.

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    2020-01-06

  • 2018
  • Nick Szabo on Bitcoin Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts pioneer

    What is needed is actually secure independence of money from politics, which the Bitcoin protocol does much better than any other prior monetary system.

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    2018-11-11

  • 2017
  • Nick Szabo on Bitcoin Blockchain, cryptocurrency, and smart contracts pioneer

    The secret to Bitcoin’s success is that its prolific resource consumption and poor computational scalability is buying something even more valuable: social scalability.

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    2017-02-09

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