Adam Back

Adam Back
Adam Back
Born	July 1970 (age 53); London, England, UK
Education	University of Exeter
	Scientific career
Fields	Cryptographic protocols; Electronic cash; Privacy-enhancing technologies; Distributed systems;
Institutions	Zero-Knowledge Systems; Pi Corporation; Blockstream;
Thesis	Parallelization of general purpose programs using optimistic techniques from parallel discrete event simulation (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Stephen Turner
Website	cypherspace.org/adam

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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