Adam Back is the CEO of Blockstream, which he co-founded in 2014.
15 Facts About Adam Back
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Adam Back invented Hashcash, which is used in the Bitcoin mining process.
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Adam Back taught himself Basic, and spent his time reverse engineering video games, finding decryption keys in software packages.
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Adam Back completed his A levels in advanced mathematics, physics and economics.
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Adam Back has a computer science PhD in distributed systems from the University of Exeter.
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Adam Back became interested in pgp encryption, electronic cash and remailers.
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Adam Back spent two thirds of his time working with encryption.
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Adam Back is a pioneer of early digital asset research similarly as Wei Dai, David Chaum, and Hal Finney.
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Adam Back implemented credlib, a library that implements the credential systems of Stefan Brands and David Chaum.
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Adam Back was the first to describe the "non-interactive forward secrecy" security property for email and to observe that any identity based encryption scheme can be used to provide non-interactive forward secrecy.
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Adam Back is known for promoting the use of ultra-compact code with his 2-line and 3-line RSA in Perl signature file and non-exportable T-shirts to protest cryptography export regulations.
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Adam Back was one of the first two people to receive an email from Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Craig Wright had sued Adam Back for stating that Wright was not Nakamoto, with Wright subsequently dropping the suit.
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Adam Back has promoted the use of satellites and mesh networks to broadcast and receive bitcoin transactions, as a backup for the traditional internet.
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On 3 October 2016, Adam Back was appointed as CEO of Blockstream.