David Chaum doesn't get enough credit for bitcoins creation.

"His 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups" is the first known proposal for a blockchain protocol.

Complete with the code to implement the protocol, Chaum's dissertation proposed all but one element of the blockchain later detailed in the Bitcoin whitepaper.

He has been referred to as "the father of online anonymity", and "the godfather of cryptocurrency"."