Cerf and Khan, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication - TCP/IP"
Whitfiled Diffie and Martin Hellman, "New directions in Cryptography"
Raplh Merkle, "Protocols for public key cryptosystems"
David Chaum, "Untraceable Electronic Mail, Return Address and Digital Pseudonyms"
Murray Rothbard, "The Ethics of Liberty"
David Chaum, "Bind Signatures for Untraceable Payments"
Neal Koblitz, "Elliptic Curve Cryptography"
Timothy C. May, "The Crypto-Anarchist's Manifesto"
David Chaum, founded Digicash
Philip Zimmermann, Pretty Good Privacy - PGP
S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document"
Cypherpunks funded in SF by Eric Hughes, Timothy C. May and John Gilmore
Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web
Eric Hughes, "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto"
Adam Back, HashCash, DOS counter-measure w/ proof-of-work
Nick Szabo, "Formalizing and Securing Relationships on Public Networks" - Smart contracts, Third part vulnerabilities
Nick Szabo, "Securing Property Titles with Owner Authority" - Timestamped database
Nick Szabo, Bit Gold
Wei Dai, "B-money - decentralized database to record txs and using a type of proof-of-work"
Many online retailer currencies in the dotcom bubble (Beenz, Flooz, etc.)
Hal Finney, "Reusable Proof-of-work"
Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy (Sep 15, 2008)
Satoshi Nakamoto, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-peer Electronic Cash System" (Oct 31, 2008)
Bitcoin inception, "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" (Jan 3, 2009)