This is not Szabo’s Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority (1998), the article which prefigured Bitcoin in many ways, but rather an overview of several different recent technical advances in cryptography and distributed systems design. It’s probably worth looking at these primitives when we’re trying to figure out how to replace today’s unreliable centralized services with more reliable peer-to-peer ones, but for many purposes they won’t be necessary.
This is not Szabo’s Secure Property Titles with Owner Authority (1998), the article which prefigured Bitcoin in many ways, but rather an overview of several different recent technical advances in cryptography and distributed systems design. It’s probably worth looking at these primitives when we’re trying to figure out how to replace today’s unreliable centralized services with more reliable peer-to-peer ones, but for many purposes they won’t be necessary.