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Inventors of cryptographic timestampingCryptography foundations✓ Verified
Stuart Haber & Scott Stornetta
Their hash-chained timestamps are cited in the white paper.
Known as Stuart Haber, W. Scott StornettaActive Jan 1991 →
Why they matter
Bitcoin's blockchain is, structurally, their timestamping scheme made decentralized: a chain of hashes that fixes the order of events in time. Satoshi cited their work three times.
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Cryptographers who, in a series of papers beginning with "How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document" (1991), built a system that chains documents together with hashes so none can be back- or forward-dated. Theirs are the most-cited references in the Bitcoin white paper.