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Adam Back
Adam Back
Role
Co-founder/CEO, Blockstream; Owner and consultant, Cypherspace Internet Security
Location
Malta
Education
University of Exeter, PhD in Computer Science
Current Project
Blockstream; Cypherspace Internet Security
Previous Projects
EMC, PI Corporation, GuardianEdge Technologies, Microsoft, Zero Knowledge Systems
About Adam Back
British cryptographer and cypherpunk Adam Back is the inventor of Hashcash, a proof of work consensus mechanism that underpins Bitcoin's block generation process.
Back was cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper and was one of the first recipients of an email from Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto; it's also been suggested by, among others, the Financial Times that he is Satoshi.
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