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Blocks and Chains: Introduction to Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, and Their Consensus Mechanisms (Synthesis Lectures on Information Security, Privacy, and Tru)
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Back has promoted the use of satellites and mesh networks to broadcast and receive bitcoin transactions, as a backup for the traditional internet.
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He was the first to describe the "non-interactive forward secrecy" security property for email and to observe that any
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Parallelization of general purpose programs using optimistic techniques from parallel discrete event simulation
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Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency
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Back's "Munitions" T-shirt featured computer code that was considered to be a weapon in the United States.
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had sued Back for stating that Wright was not Nakamoto, with Wright subsequently dropping the suit.
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Narayanan, Arvind; Bonneau, Joseph; Felten, Edward; Miller, Andrew; Goldfeder, Steven (2016).
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Burdens of Proof: Cryptographic Culture and Evidence Law in the Age of Electronic Documents
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He is also known for promoting the use of ultra-compact code with his 2-line and 3-line
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Back was born in London, England, in July 1970. His first computer was a
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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction
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scheme can be used to provide non-interactive forward secrecy.
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Back was one of the first two people to receive an email from
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Back is a pioneer of early digital asset research similar to
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Blockstream Appoints Hashcash Inventor Dr. Adam Back as CEO
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cited Back as a potential Nakamoto candidate, along with
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A similar system is used in 176:(born July 1970) is a British 86:Privacy-enhancing technologies 1: 1256:List of bitcoin organizations 672:Bitcoin: The future of money? 424: 1430:The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin 921:"On the brink of revolution" 878:"On the brink of revolution" 834:"export-a-crypto-system sig" 470:Kharif, Olga (2 June 2020). 302:and breaking other people's 43:July 1970 (age 54) 7: 1393:Bitcoin scalability problem 1081: 10: 1625: 976:"Bitcoin: Identity crisis" 1533: 1505: 1448: 1421: 1408:2018 Bitcoin bomb threats 1403:2018 cryptocurrency crash 1385: 1360: 1344: 1335: 1269: 1246:List of bitcoin companies 1238: 1117: 1089: 884:. MIT Press. p. 50. 783:. Springer. p. 200. 781:Data Privacy and Security 444:. Bloomsbury Publishing. 362:identity-based encryption 334:. In 1997, Back invented 155: 151: 141: 123: 99: 68: 61: 51: 39: 30: 23: 666:Frisby, Dominic (2015). 290:and larger companies in 775:Salomon, David (2003). 735:Anderson, Ross (2002). 304:cryptographic protocols 199: 192:, which is used in the 76:Cryptographic protocols 1584:British cryptographers 1507:Bitcoin in El Salvador 919:Brunton, Finn (2019). 847:Sinn, Richard (2007). 742:. Cambridge University 438:Singh, Rachna (2019). 319: 107:Zero-Knowledge Systems 1292:Cryptocurrency wallet 1251:List of bitcoin forks 1109:Environmental effects 317: 310:Cryptography software 1130:Andreas Antonopoulos 345:He also implemented 292:applied cryptography 256:University of Exeter 208:. He taught himself 56:University of Exeter 906:"Munitions T-shirt" 375:and non-exportable 252:distributed systems 224:. He completed his 184:. 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University of Exeter
Cryptographic protocols
Electronic cash
Privacy-enhancing technologies
Distributed systems
Zero-Knowledge Systems
Blockstream
Thesis
Parallelization of general purpose programs using optimistic techniques from parallel discrete event simulation
Doctoral advisor
cypherspace.org/adam
cryptographer
cypherpunk
Blockstream
Hashcash
Bitcoin
Sinclair ZX81
Basic
video games
decryption keys
software packages
A levels
mathematics
physics
economics
computer science
PhD
distributed systems
University of Exeter

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