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22marks t1_j5rpx1j wrote

Here's the whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Go to the last page and the references are listed, but these three of the eight are from Bell Labs and were conceived at the Friendly's Restaurant in Morristown:

S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document," In Journal of Cryptology, vol 3, no2, pages 99-111, 1991.

D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping,"In Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, pages 329-334, 1993.

S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conferenceon Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997.

One of the actual patents can be found here:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5136647A/en

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gotMUSE t1_j5rrero wrote

At a Friendly's? Unreal. Much thanks.

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