Bravo my Chinese friend! You make an excellent case study and have made some very possibly true theories/hypothetical truths here! Great guesses based on solid research! If only we can find that .ae file form Wei Dai's email on Aug 22, 2008. He did likely forward the email, so I have an idea maybe, just maybe the copy remains in some account, maybe even a Google Group or if it got to gmail through Finney a Google server/mailer daemon ;) - .ae is ccTLD for United Arab Emirates. You should checkout Devcoin as we just got the dinar symbol and a complete overhaul on a representation of a physical Devcoin. One step closer ;) The truth. #DubaiBound #Cryptocurrency/Asset City Maybe the Upload was taken down because the site providing the filehosting preserved it for themselves. :)