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Joerg Baach defends Chaumian e-cash, then asks how Bitcoin can serve as currency if anyone can create coins, and why a central issuer would be trusted when a central double-spending database is not.
Steenbergen asks whether Bitcoin resembles David Chaum's anonymous digital money and whether the system has a managed limited money supply or creates money at the moment of transaction.
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.
Answering May, Finney tells how PGP led him to Chaum's papers, which held the technologies to make Vinge's True Names work, and calls remailers the ground floor of making Big Brother obsolete.