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Adam Back

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British cryptographer

United KingdomBusiness ProfessionalsBorn 1970 · age 56
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Adam Back 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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Back's "Munitions" T-shirt featured computer code that was considered to be a weapon in the United States.Back's "Munitions" T-shirt featured computer code that was considered to be a weapon in the United States.

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Adam Back 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. An investigation by The New York Times suggested that he may be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of bitcoin, though Back has denied this claim.

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Born 1970 · age 56
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