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Discovering Satoshi: Dr. Adam Back
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“Hashcash a Denial of Service Counter-Measure” by Adam Back: http://www.hashcash.org/papers/hashcash.pdf

5-Part Interview with Trace Mayer: https://www.weusecoins.com/adam-back-cypherpunks/

Join the Cypherpunks Email list: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/cp.html

As we continue our journey of learning about the individuals who were influential in the time leading up to the creation of Bitcoin, we have now come to learn about Dr. Adam Back. He is another one of those cypherpunks who developed systems that are now being used in the Bitcoin network. He was mentioned in the Bitcoin white paper and also the Tor white paper for the work he did on a similar, prior network called Freedom Network.
Dr. Back contributed a big one for Bitcoin, hashcash. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, I bet proof-of-work does, in fact, Satoshi Nakamoto gave him credit for his contributions in the Bitcoin white paper.
Dr. Back developed hashcash back in 1997, about 11 years before bitcoin. It was initially used to prevent email spam. The hashcash system for email use would create stamps that would be attached to emails and establish a micropayment type of system which would help to deter spam.
I will be going into greater detail about hashcash, defining what a hash is and how proof-of-work actually works in my next video so if that’s something you’ve been curious to learn more about be sure to hit subscribe and click on that bell thing to get notified when that video comes out in the next couple days.

In the meantime, there is a really interesting 5-part interview series that Trace Mayer hosted with Dr. Back I’ll include links down below so you can check them out for yourself, but in it he describes his time spent in college and how it was around the time that PGP, or “Pretty Good Privacy” had been released by Phil Zimmerman. This is was when the cypherpunks really started to kick things into gear. The realization that
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