Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce.pdf (89.0 MB)Authors: Michael A. Peirce, Hitesh Tewari, O'Mahony DonalAmazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Payment-commerce-computer-security/dp/1580532683 For the unaware, this book basically describes Bitcoin years before Bitcoin itself even existed, and many claim that the authors, or one amongst them, may be the mysterious and elusive Satoshi Nakamoto. The reasons behind making this book digital and free are several:1) The book is no longer in print, and it is both expensive and hard to find. This makes it more accessible to the masses.2) Hopefully this book will aid people in understanding some of the features of bitcoin, and help others in thinking up new and innovative features and technologies.3) The text of the book could be cross-analysed with the writings of Satoshi Nakamoto to determine if the writing styles match up, which may lead to a match on the identity of Mr. Nakamoto. Software like JGAAP ( http://evllabs.com/jgaap/w/index.php/Main_Page ) could be used to accomplish this.4) Seeing as the book is out of print, and it was never a bestseller anyways, it is unlikely that the authors will suffer negative financial repercussions from this text being made public. It is our belief that information should be free.Keeping in line with the decentralized nature of bitcoin, please re-host, re-share, and re-upload.-----

Publication Date: August 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 1580532683 | ISBN-13: 978-1580532686 | Edition: 2 Sub Generally society has been moving towards electronic payment systems since the 1970s, but it is only the arrival of the Internet and its vertiginous growth, that has made possible the recent advances in this area.

Thank you! Fixed in OP.If anyone can recommend other file hosts I will create mirrors of the download. If there's one where it can be viewable in the browser, without download, I'll do that as well.

Thanks for sharing. It seems pretty obvious that Satoshi Nakamoto is either among the authors of this book or was inspired by reading it. In either case, this book is a gem as the source of the ideas that gave rise to Bitcoin.Hitesh Tewari and Donal O'Mahony also co-authored an article Performance Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols on Handheld Devices ( http://www.tara.tcd.ie/jspui/bitstream/2262/17160/1/Performance%20analysis.pdf ), which lends even more credibility to the idea that either of them (or both) could be Satoshi.

Thanks for sharing. It seems pretty obvious that Satoshi Nakamoto is either among the authors of this book or was inspired by reading it. In either case, this book is a gem as the source of the ideas that gave rise to Bitcoin.Hitesh Tewari and Donal O'Mahony also co-authored an article Performance Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols on Handheld Devices ( http://www.tara.tcd.ie/jspui/bitstream/2262/17160/1/Performance%20analysis.pdf ), which lends even more credibility to the idea that either of them (or both) could be Satoshi.

Either way, I'm looking it over now. I've wanted to take a look at this book for a while now, and it's even more implicating than I thought it would be. Satoshi is very likely to have come from Trinity I think.