E-mails to Adam Back

1. Private email (Adam Back)

   Citation of your Hashcash paper

   20 August 2008, 17:30 UTC

   I'm getting ready to release a paper that references your Hashcash paper and I wanted to make sure I have the citation right. Here's what I have: [5] A. Back, "Hashcash - a denial of service counter-measure,"…

2. Private email (Adam Back)

   RE: Citation of your Hashcash paper

   21 August 2008, 17:59 UTC

   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…

3. Private email (Adam Back)

   Re: Citation of your Hashcash paper

   10 January 2009, 18:46 UTC

   Thanks for the pointers you gave me to Wei Dai's b-money paper and others. I just released the open source implementation of my paper, Bitcoin v0.1. Details, download and screenshots are at www.bitcoin.org The main idea of the system is…

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