Before the bitcoins (Part I of II)
A brief history of digital currency: from barter to DigiCash.
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8 min readFeb 19, 2020
In the beginning there was the transaction.
From the day the first Homo sapiens (Homo neanderthalensis?) gave up their flint tools in exchange for pieces of amber owned by their neighbour sapiens, the exchange process began. Since then, we’ve never…
