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andrewprock on Jan 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bitcoin has little shot at ever being a major glob...

I would guess that e-gold, from 1996, is a better candidate for the V1 of digital currency technology.

unabridged on Jan 11, 2018 | [–]

E-gold, Liberty Reserve, PayPal, ...

All of them failed or bowed to the US's FinCEN. Bitcoin was the first without a chokepoint the governments could step on.

jacquesm on Jan 11, 2018 | [–]

No, DigiCash would be.

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