Overview
- Gender
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male
- Investor Type
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Angel
Having worked on e-cash protocols since 1995, Adam is an applied cryptographer and inventor of the hashcash proof-of-work and decentralized mining used in Bitcoin.In addition to implementing credlib, he was an e-cash consultant to Nokia and later to Credentica (acquired by Microsoft). Adam was an architect and cryptographer at Zero-Knowledge Systems working on its Freedom network, a precursor to Tor. He has also consulted for leading security companies, including oneID, Vmware and QWcap. Most recently, Adam co-founded Picorp, which was acquired by EMC and where he was CSO of the company’s consumer division, Decho. Adam holds a Ph.D. in distributed systems and computer science from the University of Exeter.
Personal Investments
Adam Back has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on
Sep 21, 2021, when Portal raised $8.50M.
Jobs
Adam Back has 1 current jobs including
CEO at Blockstream
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Organization Name |
Title At Company |
Start Date |
End Date |
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Blockstream
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CEO |
Jan 1, 2014 |
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Detail |