Adam Back

Adam Back is a British cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is the CEO of Blockstream, which he co-founded in 2014. He invented Hashcash, which is used in the bitcoin mining... Wikipedia

• Born:  July1970 (age 55), London, England, UK
• Fields:  Cryptographic protocols, Electronic cash, Privacy-enhancing technologies, Distributed systems
• Institutions:  Zero-Knowledge Systems, Pi Corporation, Blockstream
• Education:  University of Exeter
• Thesis:  Parallelization of general purpose programs using optimistic techniques from parallel discrete event simulation (1995)
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