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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.html

TPM - Trusted Platform Module

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

Confidential Transactions

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/confidential-transactions-how-hiding-transaction-amounts-increases-bitcoin-privacy-1464892525

Elements (Sidechain)

https://elementsproject.org

Liquid (Sidechain)

https://blockstream.com/liquid

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