Satoshi Nakamoto drew from the history of cryptocurrencies since David Chaum’s seminal blinding formula in the 1980s. He postulated that the flaw with existing approaches to cryptocurrencies was that a single powerful attacker could undermine and destroy the system. In order to to defeat the powerful attacker, Satoshi decentralised the control of the cryptocurrency over an …
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