Adam Back
Adam Back | |
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| Born | July 1970 (age 54) 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 |
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.