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Beelzebub’s Protégé – Deconstructing the Myth of Whitfield Diffie
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY – Bailey Whitfield "Whit" Diffie first heard about the applications of computational work-based cryptographic methods from Alan Tritter at IBM's Thomas J. Watson laboratory, when he met with him and other members of the company's cryptography research team over a weekend in 1974. Diffie was nearing the end of his sojourn across the United States, which semi-official crypto biographer Steven Levy paints as the romantic adventure of an eccentric genius, whose "libertarian ethic" drove him to scour the country in search of the best way to achieve cryptographic privacy.
Radical Conformity: How Silicon Valley and Bank of America Beta-Tested the Internet on the Counterculture
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA – On January 3, 2009, the pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto, 'mined' the cryptocurrency's first fifty tokens. The computational milestone was dubbed the "genesis block" and followed by the first Bitcoin transaction about a week later, when ten of the digital coins were sent to American software developer Harold "Hal" Finney, thus proving the network's functionality and establishing the main pillar of foundational Bitcoin lore
Bobby Ray’s Secrets and the Shadow Tech Hub of the National Security State
FORT MEADE, MD - Bobby Ray Inman waged World War three against the United States, and won. The budding spy master's legend began during a wargaming exercise at the Naval War College