Blockstream CEO Adam Back talks Bitcoin over a game of Jenga By Cointelegraph

Ever since his childhood years, Adam Again, now CEO of Blockstream, would spend his time fiddling with programming code to search for encryption keys embedded within the software program. Born in 1970, the London native accomplished his A-levels in arithmetic, physics and economics earlier than specializing in computing science and incomes a Ph.D. from the College of Exeter. Having devoted his profession to utilized cryptography, Again invented HashCash in 1997, a proof-of-work system used to restrict e mail spam and denial-of-service assaults that later turned extra famend for its use in (BTC). In reality, Again was one of many few folks to be cited within the unique Bitcoin white paper.

These days, Again manages his digital asset custody agency, Blockstream, which is predicated in Victoria, Canada and raised $210 million in a Sequence B spherical final August. Throughout an interview with Cointelegraph reporter Joe Corridor, Again defined that what fascinated him a lot about Bitcoin at first was its fertile floor for lots of utilized analysis and growth. “It covers a lot of interlayer subjects or folks, like arithmetic, pc science and programming,” he stated.