😉 💯 yup. in 1983, David Chaum (cryptographer) published a conference paper "outlining an early form of anonymous cryptographic electronic money." he developed proto-crypto currency called ecash in 1995. then Nick Szabo came out with Bit Gold (precursor to btc) in 1998 but couldn't figue out the double spend problem. a decade later on Oct, 31, 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto published the #Bitcoin whitepaper and the first established #cryptocurrency, #BTC which would not be possible without #blockchain tech 

 fact is that ecash was the first cryptocurrency.

bitcoin was the second, created as a PRIVATE p2p cryptocurrency solving the double spending problem.
today it has become something different due to a cult and a lack of intellectual capabilities of most members of this cult. it has no privacy and it does not scale.
that is why other cryptocurrencies like monero, solana or litecoin were created and have a superior value for many people who are open-minded, who can think normally