Adam Back
Bio
- Profession: Programmer
- Was part of Hong Kong consensus.
- Resident of Malta.
- Craig Wright has scrapped (13-4-2020) his lawsuit against Adam Back, covering $8,400 in legal fees.
- Has participated (3-8-2020) in the STO of Infinite Fleet (which is built by his colleague Samson Mow).
- From this post: "The concept of PoW was invented in 1997 by Adam Back (now CEO of Blockstream) for Hashcash, a system that aimed to prevent Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and e-mail spam. However, it wasn’t until it was combined with the Bitcoin’s incentive structure until it became a success."
- From Cointelegraph (3-2023):
"Adam Back is a computer scientist, cryptographer, cypherpunk and entrepreneur who laid the groundwork for Bitcoin’s proof-of-work mining consensus algorithm with his 1997 invention of Hashcash, which gained him a mention in the Bitcoin white paper. Back exchanged a few emails with Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 and 2009. Because of his cypherpunk background and early involvement in Bitcoin, many believe he could be Satoshi Nakamoto. Back received a PhD in computer science focused on distributed systems at the University of Exeter, where he became interested in PGP encryption, electronic cash and applied cryptography.
Throughout his career as a cryptographer and security architect, he has worked in senior roles for major technology companies including Microsoft, EMC, PI, VMware and Zero-Knowledge Systems, to name a few, while advising many others on cryptography and P2P finance.
In 2014, Back co-founded Canada-based Blockstream with a few others, including Bitcoin developers Pieter Wuille and Gregory Maxwell. In 2018, Back became CEO of Blockstream, where he has remained since."
Occupations
- Blockstream, CEO, president, co-founder
- Core, supporter
- Cypherpunk, worked on e-cash protocols since 1995
- Hashcash POW, Inventor
- Sidechains; "The sidechain technology has been around for some time. It first appeared in 2014 when Dr. Adam Back published a research paper called: Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains"
