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The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block

Meanwhile, a SHA-256 hash of the sentence This, is a sentence produces this hexadecimal number:. As you can see, merely inserting one comma into the sentence completely changes the hash. And, ... read more

Financial institutions want Bitcoin and ETFs: Blockstream’s Adam Back

Bitcoin’s institutional adoption remains strong, increasing the resilience of the world’s first cryptocurrency, according to Adam Back. Bitcoin (BTC) is “bootstrapped sufficiently” in ... read more

The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

The first central property of Bit Gold was proof of work, the cryptographic trick utilized by Dr. Adam Back in his “anti-spam currency” Hashcash. Proof of work represented the unforgeable costliness ... read more

The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It - Nasdaq

This is the third installment in Bitcoin Magazine's The Genesis Files series. The first two articles covered Dr. David Chaum's eCash and Dr. Adam Back's Hashcash . For more from Wei Dai, visit ... read more

Blockstream’s Adam Back defends BlackRock ad that questioned Bitcoin’s 21M cap

Blockstream CEO and Hashcash inventor Adam Back has come to the defense of BlackRock after the company’s recent Bitcoin ad triggered an outrage across the crypto community. It featured a small ... read more

The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block - Nasdaq

Like many, Back was not aware of Dwork and Naor's proof-of-work proposal. But by the mid-1990s, he was thinking of similar ideas to counter spam, sometimes "out loud" on the Cypherpunks mailing list. read more

The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It - Yahoo Finance

All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name. read more

The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block - Yahoo Finance

The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block [ANNOUNCE] hash cash postage implementation. The date is March 28, 1997, when the 2,000-or-so subscribers of the ... read more

The Genesis Files: Hashcash or How Adam Back Designed Bitcoin’s Motor Block - Yahoo Finance

[ANNOUNCE] hash cash postage implementationThe date is March 28, 1997, when the 2,000-or-so subscribers of the Cypherpunks mailing list receive an email with the above header in their inbox. read more