Adam Back
British cryptographer and cypherpunk (born 1970)
- Life
- 1970 – present
- Born
- July 1970
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
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 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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