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Microsoft publicly announces Penny Black PoW postage project

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sun Dec 28 12:13:42 2003

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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 09:13:23 -0800
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From: Steve Schear <s.schear@comcast.net>
Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3324883.stm

Adam Back is part of this team, I think.

Similar approach to Camram/hahscash.  Memory-based approaches have been 
discussed.  Why hasn't Camram explored them?

steve

BTW, Penny Black stamp was only used briefly.  It was the Penny Red which 
was used for decades. 

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