Crypto Trivia ๐Ÿ“š Wei Dai
Publicly available emails show that before Satoshi Nakamoto published the white paper in 2008, some of the earliest people he contacted included Wei Dai and Adam Back.
Wei Dai first developed Crypto++, an open-source C++ cryptography library. Its first version was released in 1995.
I learned the hard way: read the rules first.
The white paper for $BTC lists Wei Daiโ€™s b-money as its first reference.

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