Wei Dai · life event
2008-10-31 primary
📌 The whitepaper cites b-money as reference [1]
Wei Dai
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Computer engineer, author of b-money, reference [1] of the whitepaper
Described b-money in 1998: money created by solving computational problems and kept on pseudonymous accounts. Satoshi wrote that Bitcoin “expands on your ideas into a complete working system”.
Cited in whitepaper [1]
Joined: 1998-11-27 · Announced b-money on the cypherpunks list, 27 Nov 1998 (UTC) · mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki ↗ primary
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Wei Dai · life event
2008-08-22 secondary
📌 Satoshi emails him to cite b-money in the paper
Wei Dai
1998-11-27 · via cypherpunks mailing list ↗ primary
“Also available there is a description of b-money, a new protocol for monetary exchange and contract enforcement for pseudonyms.”
Wei Dai
1998 · via personal website ↗ primary
First line of b-money
“I am fascinated by Tim May's crypto-anarchy.”