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Blockstream has secured $210 million in fresh investment from a U.K. private equity firm and crypto exchange Bitfinex’s operator.
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Adam Back News
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.
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They went so far as to refer to cryptocurrency as "an instrument of economic empowerment."
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Adam Back believes that Bitcoin could boost its market cap by 400% in under two years.
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While Hal Finney may no longer be with us, one of his proposals from 2011 may soon find its way to Bitcoin thanks to an expired patent.
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Twitter doesn’t seem able to move fast enough to stop thieves from grossly misusing their platform.
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Sign your email with a private key, just like in the good old days.
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As lead maintainer Wladimir van der Laan takes a break from Bitcoin duties, we ask what would happen if the entire Github maintenance team disappeared.
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When determining consensus in the blockchain community, right and wrong isn't always "Black" and "White".
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Wuille will continue contributing to a new Multi-Signature standard for Bitcoin.
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The Winklevoss twins not only share physical similarities, but Twitter habits as well.
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But he didn’t sell anywhere near the top.
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Adam Back has some interesting (if somewhat odd) views on altcoins and the return of Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Adam Back admitted that some ICOs might have funded useful research, but still contends that they are deeply unethical.
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Crypto tribalism shifts up a gear, with Bitcoin pioneer Adam Back lashing out at Ethereum.
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An early Bitcoin adopter contends that Adam Back had a beer with Satoshi Nakamoto in London, while Back categorically denies it.
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