Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree

Arvind Narayanan; Jeremy Clark

doi:10.1145/3134434.3136559

Bitcoin’s Academic Pedigree

Arvind Narayanan
, Jeremy Clark

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We’ve seen repeatedly that ideas in the research literature can be gradually forgotten or lie unappreciated, especially if they are ahead of their time, even in popular areas of research. Both practitioners and academics would do well to revisit old ideas to glean insights for present systems. Bitcoin was unusual and successful not because it was on the cutting edge of research on any of its components, but because it combined old ideas from many previously unrelated fields. This is not easy to do, as it requires bridging disparate terminology, assumptions, etc., but it is a valuable blueprint for innovation.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Queue
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3134434.3136559
State	Published - Aug 1 2017

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General Computer Science

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