Adam Back talks about the details of Bitcoin's early days, his first emails with Satoshi Nakamoto and others about Bitcoin, and more.
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Adam Back is a crypto-hacker and cryptographer born in London in 1970 and is currently living in Malta. Adam Back’s hashcash proof-of-work system is used in counterspam technologies and cryptocurrency mining. Adam Back is one of the first people to work on Bitcoin and was contacted by Nakamoto in 2009 to give his thoughts on hashcashes usage in Bitcoin. Adam Back is a founder of the technology company Blockstream, which is one of the main contributors to Bitcoin Core. As Blockstream’s CEO, Adam brought the company into being a leading developer of the Lightning Network, liquid sidechains and other interesting projects. Adam’s contribution to Bitcoin and cryptography development has made him one of the main cryptocurrency experts today. He is actively doing talks on such topics as privacy, scaling and the future development of Bitcoin.
- Interview
- News
The Blockstream CEO says the era of altcoins ruling the market is done and that Bitcoin would return to owning 90% of it.
- News
CEO Adam Back explained users now have more options as a new update provides support for stablecoin Tether.
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by Thomas Simms
Adam Back, a cypherpunk who was one of the first people to work on BTC, attended a seminar at the G20 meeting of finance ministers.
- News
Reid Hoffman inherited the Lightning Torch from Blockstream CEO Adam Back, with the next participant still a mystery.
- Analysis
by Joseph Young
Blockstream CEO and HashCash inventor Adam Back sees a possibility of bitcoin block size increase in the mid-term
- Security
Bitcoin.com has disappeared from Badbitcoin.org’s list of trusted sites in an ongoing squabble over SegWit2x.
- Altcoin watch
Bitstamp has given users with Bitcoins in August their equivalent balance in Bitcoin Cash, but trading is not starting.
- Much Wow
Blockstream’s Blockchain Satellite has forwarded its first transaction.
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