Re: could you be Satoshi - #1 did you learn about hashcash before bitcoin?

My point is lots of smart internet protocol aware / programmer type people knew about hashcash for 11 years before bitcoin was announced.

If you want to know what tech people were exposed to around the turn of the century, Slashdot is the best place to look.

Found a couple interesting links:

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/01/04/19/0411201/hash-cash

http://slashdot.org/story/04/08/18/1345258/rpow---reusable-proofs-of-work