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Wei Dai's critique of Bitcoin's monetary policy and regret over not responding to Satoshi

Wei Dai's comments on the LessWrong post 'Bitcoins are not digital greenbacks,' in which he argued that Bitcoin has 'failed with regard to its monetary policy' due to price volatility, and revealed that he never responded to Satoshi's 2008 email asking for comments — regretting that he 'could have dissuaded him (or them) from the fixed supply of money idea.'

Wei Dai on stumbling into Bitcoin and the missed gold rush

Wei Dai's LessWrong post revealing that Satoshi Nakamoto emailed him personally in early 2009 announcing Bitcoin v0.1, but he ignored it because he 'was more interested in Less Wrong than Cypherpunks at that point.' He later started mining in 2011 after seeing a LW article, turning ~$300 into six figures.

Adam Back's retrospective on his early interaction with Satoshi

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.