Schwartz filed a patent for a “multilevel distributed computer system” in 1988, 2 decades before the publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Schwartz’s invention aimed to distribute computing-intensive tasks across a network of devices, leveraging their combined processing power. That sounds a lot like bitcoin mining
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Although the project didn’t materialize, Schwartz experimented with the technology but was limited by the lack of computing power and fast internet connections we have today, Schwartz’s work in distributed computing from 30 years ago still influences his current work in areas like blockchain – but he maintains that he is not Satoshi