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)
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo