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Adam Back
British cryptographer and cypherpunk (born 1970)
Adam Back (born July 1970) is a British cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is the CEO of Blockstream, which he co-founded in 2014. He invented Hashcash, which is used in the bitcoin mining process.
Life
Back was born in London, England, in July 1970.[1] His first computer was a Sinclair ZX81. He taught himself Basic, and spent his time reverse engineering video games, finding decryption keys in software packages. He completed his A levels in advanced mathematics, physics, and economics.[citation needed]
He has a computer sciencePhD in distributed systems from the University of Exeter.[2] During his PhD, Back worked with compilers to make use of parallel computers in a semi automated way. He became interested in PGP encryption, electronic cash and remailers. He spent two thirds of his time working with encryption. After graduation, Back spent his career as a consultant in start ups and larger companies in applied cryptography, writing cryptographic libraries, designing, review
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When Sir Adam Beck was born on 20 June 1857, in Baden, Waterloo, Canada West, British North America, his father, Jacob Friedrich Beck Esq., was 41 and his mother, Charlotte Josephine Hespeler, was 35. He married Lilian Ottaway on 7 September 1898, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in London, Canada West, British North America in 1911 and Ontario, Canada in 1925. He died on 15 August 1925, in London, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68, and was buried in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Stories from a Descendant of the Beck Family
Stories from a Descendant of the Beck Family – On June 20th, we celebrate Waterpower Day. This date and the Beck family symbolizes many things – first and foremost it was chosen because it is the birthdate of Sir Adam Beck. Sir Adam Beck was a Canadian politician and waterpower advocate who founded the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. His dream was to create a hydroelectric system, funded by the provincial government using water from Niagara Falls and other Ontario lakes and rivers to support electricity for all.
Sir Adam Beck I and II, two of the largest waterpower facilities in Ontario, located in Niagara, bear his name. Over the past year, since its inauguration, municipalities and communities across Ontario have proclaimed Waterpower Day. This day is an opportunity for the industry to raise awareness of the true value of the 224 facilities and thousands of workers producing one quarter of the province’s electricity supply. Waterpower is a renewable, reliable and affordable source of electricity that is e
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