#Bitcoin
7 entries tagged Bitcoin.
People (4)
- Adam Back Adam Back is a British cryptographer who invented the Hashcash proof-of-work scheme cited in the Bitcoin white paper, was the first person Satoshi Nakamoto is known to have emailed, co-founded the blockchain company Blockstream, and is a recurring Satoshi candidate that he denies.
- Hal Finney Hal Finney was a cryptographer who developed Pretty Good Privacy and reusable proof-of-work, received the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto, and was cryopreserved by Alcor after his death from ALS.
- Nick Szabo Nick Szabo is a computer scientist and legal scholar who proposed the digital-cash scheme bit gold, coined the concept of smart contracts, and is recurrently and consistently denied to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Wei Dai Wei Dai is a computer engineer who proposed the b-money digital-cash scheme cited in the Bitcoin white paper, created the Crypto++ library, and posts in the rationalist community.
Organizations (1)
- Blockstream Blockstream is the Bitcoin-infrastructure company that Adam Back and others founded in 2014, builder of the Liquid sidechain and the Core Lightning implementation, employer of several Bitcoin Core developers, and a $3.2 billion firm after its 2021 Series B.
Concepts (2)
- Hashcash Hashcash is the 1997 proof-of-work scheme that Adam Back devised to price email and deter spam by forcing a sender to compute a partial hash collision, and which the 2008 Bitcoin white paper cited as the model for the proof-of-work that secures the network and issues new coins.
- Satoshi Nakamoto Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous author of the 2008 Bitcoin white paper and the developer who launched the network in January 2009, mined roughly 1.1 million bitcoin that have never moved, and stopped public communication in 2011.