In 1979, University of California, Berkley student David Chaum submitted his Doctoral dissertation titled " Computer systems established, maintained, and trusted by mutually suspicious groups".
A concept we now know as "trustless" protocols.
"Computerization is robbing individuals of the ability to monitor and control the ways information about them is used. Already, public and private sector organizations acquire extensive personal information and exchange it amongst themselves..."
Chaum was very aware of his privacy and apparently shunned fame. So creating an alias that sounded Asian in origin seems like a good way to totally direct this creation away from the United States or Caucasian United States citizens.
It's very possible a contemporary of his, maybe one of his fellow classmates or friends understood the need for this to exist and went ahead and created it.
Maybe one of his classmates became a professor and shared these ideas with students and they actually manifested it.
Whoever ultimately brought Bitcoin and blockchain to fruition, David Chaum is the genesis of the idea it seems.
You can read the dissertation here:
https://www.chaum.com/publications/research_chaum_2.pdf
This post is a reshare from my blog on Leo Finance.
