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> All of this was years before Bitcoin, not to mention Ethereum

Cypherpunks were working on this since the 90s (or even 80s). There was a very active mailing list way back then with experiments and a lot of discussions. Bitcoin was revolutionary but it was built on top of a lot of existing work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk




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