“Wei Dai/Satoshi 2009 Bitcoin Emails”, 2014-03-17 (; backlinks):
Emails in 2009 between Wei Dai and Satoshi Nakamoto discussing Bitcoin draft proposal and B-money.
Below are 3 emails 2008–200915ya15ya between cryptographers Wei Dai & Satoshi Nakamoto; they were quoted in the Sunday Times’s 2014-03-02 article “Desperately seeking Satoshi; From nowhere, bitcoin is now worth billions. Where did it come from? Andrew Smithset off to find Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious genius behind the hit e-currency”.
The then-unknown Satoshi Nakamoto contacted Wei Dai, one of the few cryptographers to even dabble in e-currency speculation at the time, for citation details for his draft Bitcoin white paper, and to advertise his ideas. Wei Dai was not particularly interested but told Nakamoto about Nick Szabo’s uncited Bit Gold; in retrospect, Wei Dai interprets this as evidence that Satoshi is not Nick Szabo.