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Wei Dai's reply to Adam Back on the Cypherpunks mailing list, discussing b-money's practical limitations. Dai acknowledged that 'b-money will at most be a niche currency/contract enforcement mechanism' and revealed a shift in his political views, stating 'I now tend to think that the government monopoly of force is a net benefit.'
Satoshi Nakamoto's earliest known email. He contacts Adam Back to verify the correct citation for the Hashcash paper and shares a pre-release draft titled 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party' (ecash.pdf).
Satoshi emails Wei Dai asking about the correct citation for b-money, revealing that he learned of b-money from Adam Back's reference. The email included a link to the pre-release draft 'Electronic Cash Without a Trusted Third Party' (ecash.pdf) hosted at upload.ae.
Adam Back reflects on his August 2008 email exchange with Satoshi Nakamoto, his regret at not reading the Bitcoin whitepaper carefully, and his testimony during the COPA v. Wright trial where the complete email chain was made public.
During Day 13 of the COPA v. Craig Wright trial, Martti Malmi testified via video link and submitted 260 emails (140,000 words) exchanged with Satoshi Nakamoto between May 2009 and February 2011. The complete email archive was published on GitHub.
Blockstream CEO Adam Back stated that Bitcoin faces no quantum computing threat for roughly 20–40 years, pointing to NIST-standardized post-quantum signatures like SLH-DSA that Bitcoin can adopt well before any threat materializes.