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Cryptocurrency

Patented: History of Inventions

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Cryptocurrency - What Was Your Eureka Moment?

Cryptography is the development of what came to be called public key cryptography. It allows us to have separate public and private keys, where something encrypted with the public key can be decrypted with the private key. So it provides a way to authenticate and create secrecy. These ideas, we're still not dealing with currency yet. We're still dealing with just the advent of network computers,. How do we keep them safe, and how do we provide authenticity?

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