e-gold

Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.

Defined in: penet.fi, Napster, e-gold, the Liberty Dollar — each had one place where it could be stopped (1995–2011)

3 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Event August 20, 2008 Added October 1, 2026 Updated October 15, 2026 Analysis

Before the code was done: what Satoshi knew of Hashcash, b-money, Bit Gold and RPOW

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Adam Back, Wei Dai, Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, David Chaum

On August 20, 2008 Satoshi called his C++ code nearly finished. Which precursors were in front of him by then? The earliest record for Hashcash, b-money, MicroMint, Bit Gold, DigiCash and RPOW.

Event February 19, 2019 Added June 27, 2026 Updated October 11, 2026 Analysis

Was Paul Le Roux Satoshi? The E4M cryptographer The Mastermind's author put forward

Paul Le Roux ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

He wrote E4M, then built a criminal empire. The case Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind, set out in 2019 for Paul Le Roux as Satoshi, weighed.

Event January 25, 2009 Added March 19, 2026 Updated September 13, 2026 Article

Re: Bitcoin v0.1 released - Spam, POW tokens, and reverse-spamming

Satoshi Nakamoto ↔ Dustin Trammell

Satoshi responds to Hal Finney's botnet/pay-per-send point, proposing that fake mailboxes could 'reverse-spam' spammers by harvesting their POW tokens. He also describes e-gold's 'dusting' problem.