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by onnoonno 3738 days ago
> Proof of work was invented in the late 90s by Adam Back. The consensus algorithm using proof of work and a blockchain is what Bitcoin brought to the world.

Wikipedia disagrees:

> The concept may have been first presented by Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor in a 1993 journal article.

Adam Back invented hash cash as one form of POW.

1 comments

True, I was wrong. Thank you for the correction.