I was very interested to read your b-money page. I'm getting ready to release a paper that expands on your ideas into a complete working system. Adam Back (hashcash.org) noticed the similarities and pointed me to your site. ...
the key is Adam Back. try to search with this key.
Adam Back (born July 1970) is a British cryptographer and crypto-hacker.
Satoshi sends email directly to Adam and then Adam refers Wei. Both Adam and Wei gets citations on the paper. Story ends there.
Adam Back was one of the first persons satoshi had contact. he went slience after first contact and appeared back in 2013. currently he is one of the most involved people into Bitcoin. story to be continued.