Wei Dai's retrospective statements on Satoshi Nakamoto and b-money
Wei Dai's March 2014 LessWrong Q&A: why he never built b-money, his disillusionment with crypto-anarchy, and his reading of Satoshi's motives and background.
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Wei Dai's March 2014 LessWrong Q&A: why he never built b-money, his disillusionment with crypto-anarchy, and his reading of Satoshi's motives and background.
Bitcoin Institute ↔ Nils Schneider, Gavin Andresen, Wei Dai, Pieter Wuille, Satoshi Nakamoto
On November 21, 2011, Bitcoin v0.5 shipped with the Crypto++ SHA-256 subset removed and replaced by OpenSSL. Wei Dai's library, a direct codebase dependency since v0.1, was gone.
Wei Dai ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Adam Back
b-money is whitepaper reference [1], his Crypto++ shipped inside Bitcoin v0.1, and he was the second person Satoshi contacted. The evidence for Wei Dai as Satoshi, weighed.
Computer scientist and cryptographer who created b-money (1998), one of the earliest digital currency proposals, and the Crypto++ library. Satoshi emailed him before publishing the Bitcoin paper.
Wei Dai announces b-money on the Cypherpunks list as a secondary item alongside PipeNet 1.1, his primary focus. The proposal later cited in Bitcoin appears in a single sentence at the end of the post.
Bitcoin Institute ↔ Timothy May, Eric Hughes, Hal Finney, Adam Back, Wei Dai, David Chaum, Len Sassaman, Satoshi Nakamoto, John Gilmore
How a 1992 Oakland meeting became the Cypherpunks mailing list: the name, the remailers, the Clipper fight, the 1997 split, and the Hashcash and b-money posts the Bitcoin whitepaper later cited.