The Anita Posch Show - Adam Back: Future of Bitcoin and Blockstream
My guest is Adam Back the inventor of Hashcash, that was used as the proof-of-work method in Bitcoin. His work is cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper as well as in the Tor Browser whitepaper. Adam is a seasoned cryptographer with a PhD in computer science and distributed systems. As co-founder and CEO of Blockstream he is building the infrastructure for the internet of the future.
Topics:
- Blockstream's funding and future plans
- Decentralization of mining
- Greenlight: Lightning nodes for everyone
- how Bitcoin supports green energy
- Starlink vs. Blockstream satellites
- Bitcoin R & D and innovations in Altcoins
- Inflation bug in Bitcoin
- Simplicity: Bitcoin smart contracts
- Strategies to de-risk ETFs dangers to Bitcoin
- How to make more bitcoin out of your bitcoin
- DeFi on Bitcoin
- What Adam Back is doing in his spare time
- The Future of Blockstream and Bitcoin
- How Bitcoin has changed Adam Back
Shownotes on the episode page