Thanks, I wasn’t aware of the b-money page, but my ideas start from exactly that point. I’ll e-mail him to confirm the year of publication so I can credit him.
The main thing my system adds is to also use proof-of-work to support a distributed timestamp server. While users are generating proof-of-work to make new coins for themselves, the same proof-of-work is also supporting the network timestamping. This is instead of Usenet.
Quote from: Adam Back on August 21, 2008, 12:55:59 PM UTC
Adam
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:30 PM, satoshi@anonymousspeech.com satoshi@anonymousspeech.com wrote:
Quote from: Satoshi Nakamoto on August 20, 2008, 5:30:39 PM UTCI’m getting ready to release a paper that references your Hashcash paper and I wanted to make sure I have the citation right.