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
https://twitter.com/adam3us
Dr. Back's Info Page
http://www.cypherspace.org/adam
Blockstream
https://blockstream.com
Malta (Crypto-friendly)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/how-malta-became-a-hub-of-the-cryptocurrency-world-quicktake
Dr. Back's First Computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum
PGP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
Cypherpunks Mailing List
https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/getting-started/what-is-the-cypherpunks-mailing-list
Adam's Credential Library for Ecash & DigiCash
http://cypherspace.org/credlib
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/Pseudonymous_remailer
Hal Finney (integrated PGP into remailers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)
Adam Back's Hashcash
http://www.hashcash.org
Spam Assassin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_SpamAssassin
Microsoft Digital Postmarks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Postmarks
SYN Cookies, by Dan Bernstein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_cookies
Pricing via Processing or Combatting Junk Mail (PDF)
http://www.hashcash.org/papers/pvp.pdf
Old communication between Peter Todd, Adam Back and Hal Finney
https://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/bluesky/2001-March.txt
Wei Dai's B-Money
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/B-money
Nick Szabo's Bit Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo#Bit_gold
Hal Finney's RPOW - Reusable Proof of Work
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/index.h
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