The OG Blockchain Story: Before Bitcoin Was Cool
In 1991, two Bellcore researchers, Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta, were quietly revolutionizing digital trust with their seminal paper “How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document” in the Journal of Cryptology. Their opening words were prophetic: “The prospect of a world in which all text, audio, picture, and video documents are in digital form on easily modifiable media raises the issue of how to certify when a document was created or last changed.” This wasn’t about cryptocurrency — it was about something far more fundamental: How do you prove a digital document existed at a specific moment in time without relying on trust?
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