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.

Satoshi

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>> I'm getting ready to release a paper that references your Hashcash paper and I wanted to make sure I have the citation right.