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  2. David Chaum - Wikipedia

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    His 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups" is the first known proposal for a blockchain protocol. [1] Complete with the code to implement the protocol, Chaum's dissertation proposed all but one element of the blockchain later detailed in the Bitcoin whitepaper .

  3. List of blockchains - Wikipedia

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    [Note 1] Permissioned? [Note 1] Finality Ledger state Notes Refs. Bitcoin: January 3, 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto: BTC. PoW with Nakamoto Consensus Yes (scripts) No No Probabilistic UTXO: First and most well-known blockchain of all; BTC is the most valuable token in terms of market share. [1] [2] Litecoin: Oct 8, 2011 Charlie Lee LTC PoW: Yes ...

  4. Hedera (distributed ledger) - Wikipedia

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    [17] [18] Cornell Professor Emin Gün Sirer notes that "The correctness of the entire Hashgraph protocol seems to hinge on every participant knowing and agreeing upon N, the total number of participants in the system," which is "a difficult number to determine in an open distributed system." Baird responded that "All of the nodes at a given ...

  5. List of cryptocurrencies - Wikipedia

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    Notes 2009 Bitcoin: BTC, [3] XBT, ₿ Satoshi Nakamoto: SHA-256d [4] [5] C++ [6] PoW [5] [7] The first and most widely used decentralized ledger currency, [8] with the highest market capitalization as of 2018. [9] 2011 Litecoin: LTC, Ł Charlie Lee: Scrypt: C++ [10] PoW: One of the first cryptocurrencies to use scrypt as a hashing algorithm ...

  6. IOTA (technology) - Wikipedia

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    IOTA is an open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency designed for the Internet of things (IoT). [1] It uses a directed acyclic graph to store transactions on its ledger, motivated by a potentially higher scalability over blockchain based distributed ledgers. [2]

  7. Hash chain - Wikipedia

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    A hash chain is similar to a blockchain, as they both utilize a cryptographic hash function for creating a link between two nodes. However, a blockchain (as used by Bitcoin and related systems) is generally intended to support distributed agreement around a public ledger (data), and incorporates a set of rules for encapsulation of data and ...

  8. Road map - Wikipedia

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    One hundred strip road maps are shown, accompanied by a double-sided page of text giving additional advice for the map's use, notes on the towns shown, and the pronunciations of their names. [3] The roads were measured using a surveyor's wheel and plotted at one inch to the statute mile (1:63,360), an Ogilby innovation. [ 4 ]

  9. Dash (cryptocurrency) - Wikipedia

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    Dash was designed to allow transactions to occur quickly and to implement a governance structure that addresses perceived shortcomings in Bitcoin. [3]Governance is managed through a form of decentralized autonomous organization in which decisions are made via a blockchain.