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> Bitcoin whitepaper was released in 2008. Before that even the concept of cryptocurrency hardly existed.

Digital currency was, as I understand, the application usually highlighted for secure (cryptography-based) distributed capability-based computing, as typified by the E programming language in 1997. Not sure if there are precedents going back further or not.



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