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Created: 2025-07-29 21:55:41 UTC

Dwork and Naor’s 1992 paper introduced proof-of-work.
Yes—that proof-of-work.
Before Bitcoin.
It was a method to fight email spam.
But it was the embryo of Nakamoto’s breakthrough.
And it came from people immersed in abstract mathematics, not libertarian ideology.


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