Comment Comment by emin_gun_sirer >Bitcoin is the first digital currency to solve the double-spending problem without needing a trusted third party.This is false. Karma was a p2p currency that did this in 2004, 5 years before Bitcoin: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/papers/karma.pdf parent emin_gun_sirer 13 years ago
This is false. Karma was a p2p currency that did this in 2004, 5 years before Bitcoin: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/papers/karma.pdf