B-Money Celebrates its 25th Anniversary: The Unknown Ancestor Who Gave Birth to Bitcoin!
On November 26, 1998, computer scientist and cryptographer Wei Dai published an essay on a Cypherpunk mailing list titled “B-Money: An Anonymous, Distributed Electronic Cash System”. This document described the foundation of a peer-to-peer payment system based on cryptography, laying the groundwork for what would become Bitcoin 10 years later.