Wei Dai = Satoshi

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Defined in: Was Wei Dai Satoshi? — author of b-money, his Crypto++ shipped inside Bitcoin v0.1

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Event November 21, 2011 Added May 3, 2026 Updated November 9, 2026 Article

Bitcoin v0.5 removes the Crypto++ dependency, replacing it with OpenSSL SHA-256

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.