In 1996, the National Security Agency published a paper titled “How to Make a Mint: the Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash.”
1996-01-01 → 1997-01-01
NSA published How to Make a Mint paper
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- In 1996, the National Security Agency published a paper titled “How to Make a Mint: the Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash.”
in 1996, twelve years before Bitcoin launched, the NSA published a paper titled “How to Make a Mint: the Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash.”
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