Adam Back

World-renowned cryptographer Adam Back is best known for his work with hashish. a PoW system that was designed to help email service operators filter out spam in an easy, hassle-free manner. He is now the CEO of Blockstream. a crypto-related startup that is focused on developing side chains as well as other similar novel applications. After graduation, Adam spent his vocation as a specialist in new businesses and bigger organizations in applied cryptography, composing cryptographic libraries, planning, surveying, and breaking others' cryptographic protocols. He is a trailblazer of early computerized resource research in much the same way as Wei Dai, David Chaum, and Hal Finney. In 1997, He imagined Hashcash. A comparable framework is utilized in Bitcoin. He likewise executed credible, a library that carries out the certification frameworks of Stefan Brands and David Chaum. He was the first to depict the "non-intuitive forward secrecy" security property for email and to see that any personality-based encryption plan can be utilized to give non-intelligent forward secrecy. He is additionally known for advancing the utilization of super-conservative code with his 2-line and 3-line RSA in Perl signature documents and non-exportable T-shirts to fight cryptography trade regulations.

Details

• Organization: Blockstream
• Location: Malta
• Education: PhD, in Computer Science from the University of Exeter 
• Skills: Cloud Computing and Security architecture design

Experience:

• Co-founder & CEO at Blockstream from Oct 2016 - Present
• Applied Cryptographer at Bitcoin Consultant from Apr 2013 - Present
• Owner and Consultant at Cypherspace Internet Security from Dec 1997 - Present
• Chief Info Sec Officer at EMC (Decho Corporation) from Jun 2008 - Jul 2010
• Security Architect & Co-Founder at PI Corporation from  Dec 2003 - Jul 2010

FAQ's

1. What is the current role of Adam Back?

He currently serves as the CEO and co-founder of Blockstream

2. What is the net worth of Adam Back?

Back's net worth is estimated to be around $100 million.