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Wei Dai's original announcement of b-money on the Cypherpunks mailing list. Notably, b-money was mentioned as a secondary item alongside PipeNet 1.1 — an anonymous routing protocol that was Dai's primary focus. The b-money proposal that would later inspire Bitcoin was introduced in a single sentence at the end of this post.
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.
Nick Szabo discusses why Bitcoin took so long to be invented, the similarities and differences between bit gold and Bitcoin, and why 'nearly everybody who heard the general idea thought it was a very bad idea.'