The Bitcoin Game #59: Dr. Adam Back
Welcome to episode 59 of "The Bitcoin Game," I'm Rob Mitchell. I'm happy to bring to you part one of an interview with Cypherpunk and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back. Dr. Back talks about topics such as his first computers, his early privacy-oriented work, Hashcash vs. other proof-of-work, various early electronic money systems, and his work on Bitcoin Confidential Transactions. Get ready to soak in some history from one of the people whose "work" became an integral part of Bitcoin.
EPISODE LINKS Adam Back (Adam3us) on Twitter / adam3us
Dr. Back's Info Page http://www.cypherspace.org/adam
Blockstream https://blockstream.com
Malta (Crypto-friendly) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
Dr. Back's First Computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spec...
PGP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_...
Cypherpunks Mailing List https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/getting-st...
David Chaum's Ecash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash
Stefan Brands' DigiCash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash
Adam Back's Eternity http://www.cypherspace.org/eternity
Usenet News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Pseudonymous Remailers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudon...
Hal Finney (integrated PGP into remailers) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Fin...)
Adam Back's Hashcash http://www.hashcash.org
Spam Assassin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_...
Microsoft Digital Postmarks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...
SYN Cookies, by Dan Bernstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_coo...
Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail (PDF) http://www.hashcash.org/papers/pvp.pdf
Old communication between Peter Todd, Adam Bach and Hal Finney https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b...
Wei Dai's B-Money https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money
Nick Szabo's Bit Gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Sz...
Hal Finney's RPOW - Reusable Proof of Work https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/...
TPM - Trusted Platform Module https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted...
Confidential Transactions https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/...
Elements (Sidechain) https://elementsproject.org
Liquid (Sidechain) https://blockstream.com/liquid
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