Before Bitcoin

- 1974 Robert E. Kahn / Vint Cerf TCP/IP = Internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite

- 1976 Whitfield Diffie / Martin Hellman / New Directions in Cryptography
https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf

- 1978 RSA Public Key Cryptosystem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)

- 1980 Ralph Merkle Protocols Cryptosystems
http://www.merkle.com/papers/Protocols.pdf

- 1981 David Chaum Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

- 1982 Murray Rothbard The Ethics of Liberty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard

- 1983 David Chaum Blind Signatures
https://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF

- 1985 Elliptic Curve Cryptography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography

- 1988 Timothy C. May The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html

- 1989 David Chauman DigiCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash

- 1991 Phil Zimmermann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann

- 1991 Haber / Stornetta How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00196791

- 1992 / 1993 Eric Hugues A Cyperherpunk's Manifesto

- 1992 Cypherpunk Founded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk

- 1994 CyberCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberCash

- 1994 Timothy C. May
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt

- 1996 E-Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold

- 1996 NSA How To Make A Mint
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm

- 1997 Adam Back HashCash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Back

- 1997 Nick Szabo Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks
https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/548/469

- 1998 Nick Szabo Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/secure-property-titles/

- 1998 Bit Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo

- 1998 Wei Dai B-Money
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money

- 1999 Dot Com Bubble
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

- 2001 Bram Cohen BitTorrent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen

- 2001 Distributed Hash Tables
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

- 2004 Hal Finney / Reusable Proofs of Work
 
- 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto / A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

- 2009 Bitcoin Launched Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

Bitcoin Pre-history
https://www.bitcoinbtc.pro/2020/11/bitcoin-pre-history.html

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto by Eric Hughes
https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

Crypto Anarchy
https://cryptoanarchy.wiki