Adam Back
British cryptographer and cypherpunk (born 1970) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Adam Back (born July 1970) 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 process.
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Born | July 1970 (age 53) London, England, UK |
Education | University of Exeter |
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Thesis | Parallelization of general purpose programs using optimistic techniques from parallel discrete event simulation (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Stephen Turner |
Website | cypherspace |
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