Adam Back

Adam Back
Born	July 1970 (age 54) London, England, UK
Education	University of Exeter
Scientific career
Fields	Cryptographic protocols Electronic cash Privacy-enhancing technologies Distributed systems
Institutions	Zero-Knowledge Systems Pi Corporation Blockstream
Thesis	Parallelization of general purpose programs using optimistic techniques from parallel discrete event simulation (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Stephen Turner
Website	cypherspace.org/adam

Adam Back (born July 1970) 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.