Zhong Ben Cong wrote bi Te BI paper in that year, he wrote Wei Dai many times to discuss BI Te BI and clearly stated that BI Te BI is a supplement and extension of B-Money concept. Today, when you look at the BI Te BI white paper, you will find the first reference from Wei Dai's 1998 book "B-Money".
As an important pioneer of blockchain, Wei Dai has been in a very high position in the field of encryption, and has influenced a large number of young people including V God. At the same time, Wei Dai is also extremely mysterious in real life. There are very few personal information about him on the Internet, and his story is also controversial. Some people even suspect that Wei Dai is zhong Ben Cong himself.
So who is Wei Dai, the Chinese cryptographer? This time, we're trying to piece some together from various sources. Before BI Te BI, many of the underlying technical concepts of blockchain actually came from Cypherpunk, a mysterious mailing list group founded in 1993.
Cypherpunk is a group of geeks who advocate the use of strong encryption algorithms to keep people's privacy safe. Its members include many of the most famous computer titans we know today, including the founder of wikileaks, the "father of the World Wide Web", the original founder of Facebook, and of course, Wei Dai and Zhong Ben Cong.