Bitcoin history
Mainly links to pre-Bitcoin efforts
Cypherpunk trends&visions, Nick Szabo, 1995-08-15
David Chaum: Computer Systems Established, Trusted, and Maintained by Mutually Suspicious Groups, PhD thesis, University of california, Berkeley, 1982
Smart contracts watch, Unenumerated (Nick Szabo), 2007-08-20
Blind signatures, Unenumerated (Nick Szabo), 2007-08-24
Bit Gold, Unenumerated (Nick Szabo), 2008-12-27
Political bubbles, Unenumerated (Nick Szabo), 2008-05-17
Liar-resistant government, Unenumerated (Nick Szabo), 2009-05-07
Bitcoin, what took ye so long?, Unenumerated (Nick Szabo), 2011-05-28
Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree, Communications of the ACM, December 2017, Vol. 60 No. 12, Pages 36-45
On the Origins and Variations of Blockchain Technologies, IEEE Security&Privacy, 2019-03-25 (PDF)
The Genesis Files: How Hal Finney’s Quest For Digital Cash Led To Rpow (And More), Bitcoin Magazine, 2020-08-28
Bitcoin v0.1 released, Satoshi Nakamoto satoshi at vistomail.com,Thu Jan 8 14:27:40 EST 2009 (Archive.org)
Mac OS X universal build for testing , Laszlo Hanyecz at Bitcointalk, 2010-04-19
How did classical Ripple work?, Mike Hearn, 2021-08-18