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The Origins of Bitcoin
StJohn Piano
24 March 2026
Post #114
http://tela.network/forum/114/

Friday, August 22, 2008 4:38 PM
1) Satoshi Nakamoto to Wei Dai

"I was very interested to read your b-money page.  I'm getting ready to release a paper that expands on your ideas into a complete working system."

2013-04-18
2) Adam Back posted to the BitcoinTalk forums a self-introduction mentioning that

"I believe it was me who got Wei Dai's b-money reference added to Satoshi's bitcoin paper when he emailed me about hashcash back in 2008"

"the actual bitcoin mining is basically my hashcash invention..."

3) bitcoin.org was registered on 2008-08-18.

4) b-money:
http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt

5) b-money was announced on the cypherpunks mailing list in 1998.
https://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1998/11/msg00941.html

6) Adam Back's commentary on b-money:
https://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1998/12/msg00203.html

Source:
Wei Dai/Satoshi Nakamoto 2009 Bitcoin emails
https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto