Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree

【Author】 Narayanan, Arvind; Clark, Jeremy

【Source】COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM

【影响因子】14.065

【Abstract】IF YOU HAVE read about bitcoin in the press and have some familiarity with academic research in the field of cryptography, you might reasonably come away with the following impression: Several decades' worth of research on digital cash, beginning with David Chaum, (10,12) did not lead to commercial success because it required a centralized, bank-like server controlling the system, and no banks wanted to sign on. Along came bitcoin, a radically different proposal for a decentralized cryptocurrency that did not need the banks, and digital cash finally succeeded. Its inventor, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, was an academic outsider, and bitcoin bears no resemblance to earlier academic proposals.

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【发表时间】2017 DEC

【收录时间】2022-01-02

【文献类型】观点阐述

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区块链应用-虚拟经济-加密货币