A Brief History of Cryptocurrency
The history of these virtual currencies begins with one person: the
cryptographer David Chaum. This American developed in 1983 a
cryptographic system that he called eCash. Twelve years later, he
created another system, DigiCash, which used cryptography so that
when a person made economic transactions, they were confidential.
However, the first time the idea or term 'cryptocurrency' was coined
was in 1998. That year, Wei Dai began to ponder the idea of
developing a new form of payment that uses a cryptographic system
and whose main characteristic is decentralization.
Satoshi Nakamoto: creator of the first cryptocurrency
Do you remember the global economic crisis that started more than
a decade ago? Yes, in 2008, a financial crisis was in full swing that
affected the entire world, including the United States' superpower.
The effects of such a tremendous economic disaster were latent, and
currencies were losing value faster and faster.
In 2009, a person whose identity is still secret but who calls himself
Satoshi Nakamoto created the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. As you
have already read, he was not the first person who came up with the
idea of creating it.