waxwing on Nostr: Remarkable that Jakobsson and Juels, in 1999 wrote a paper 'Proof of work and Bread ...
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"content": "Remarkable that Jakobsson and Juels, in 1999 wrote a paper 'Proof of work and Bread Pudding Protocols', building on work by Rivest and Shamir shortly before(?), that came pretty close to Bitcoin's design (see PIPOW and Section 4, quote: 'We show how to partition this task into a collection of POWs, enabling minting to be distributed among a collection of low power, untrusted entities'.\n\nhttps://www.arijuels.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/PoW.pdf\n\nhttps://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/pubs/RS96a.pdf",
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