Much to my embarrassment, I didn’t know well enough who Adam Back actually is, his background and that he holds a PhD in computer science🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ Now I know.
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He is cited in the white paper for Hashcash
And one of the original cypherpunks...inventor of hashcash, the proof of work...and a possible candidate or collaborator of Satoshi....
And also the guy who printed a perl implementation of a cryptographic algorithm on a T-shirt and crossed the borders of the US, demonstrating that categorizing algorithms as munitions was against 1st amendmend. Clinton reclassified cryptography a few years later.
Didn’t know that tidbit
Wow, didn’t know that part of his biography 😂🫡