Cryptographers think of the field as originating in the work of Dr David Chaum who invented the blinded signature.
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However, it was the work of David Chaum that excited the cryptography community about the potential of encrypted messages as actual financial instruments.
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This interest led to attending several conferences (Financial Cryptography 98, various MIT presentations), participating on mailing lists such as "cypherpunks" and "dbs", and eventually implementing patented Chaumian digital cash in an underground library, HINDE, with Ian Goldberg, named after Hinde ten Berge, a Dutch cypherpunk also present at FC98.