Seems like people need another reminder. What do all these below have in common? Heavy emphasis on privacy, untraceability, and anonymity in their titles and content. No resemblance to the Bitcoin we know today.
"Digital Cash & Privacy" 1993 -Hal Finney
"The Case for Privacy" 2005 -David D. Friedman
"Credit With Privity" 1996 -Nick Szabo
"Confidential Auditing" 1998 -Nick Szabo
"Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments" 1982 -David Chaum
"Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Addresses, and Digital Pseudonyms" 1988 -David Chaum
"The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability" 1988 -David Chaum
"Proofs that Yield Nothing But Their Validity or All Languages in NP Have Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems" 1991 -Oded Goldreich, Silvio Micali, and Avi Wigderson
"Online Cash Checks" 1989 -David Chaum
"On Digital Cash-Like Payment Systems" 2005 -Daniel A. Nagy
"Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems" 1979 -Ralph C. Merkle
"Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups" 1982 -David Chaum
"b-money" 1998 -Wei Dai
"The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto" 1988 -Timothy C. May
"The Cyphernomicon" 1994 -Timothy C. May
"Contracts in Cyberspace" 2000 -David D. Friedman
"Contracts with Bearer" 1999 -Nick Szabo
"Crypto Glossary" 1992 -Eric Hughes and Timothy C. May
"Cyberspace, Crypto Anarchy, and Pushing Limits" 1994 -Timothy C. May
"The Geodesic Market" 1998 -Robert Hettinga
"The God Protocols" 1999 -Nick Szabo
"Trusted Third Parties are Security Holes" 2001 -Nick Szabo
