About this episode

Adam Back discusses the evolution of Bitcoin and its future challenges, particularly regarding quantum security.

In 2008, before the genesis block existed, Satoshi Nakamoto emailed Adam Back the Bitcoin whitepaper - the same paper that cites Back's Hashcash as a building block for proof-of-work.Today Adam Back is co-founder and CEO of Blockstream and CEO of Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR). He joins Bitcoin Suisse to trace Bitcoin's arc from a cypherpunk experiment to a reserve asset that sovereigns and institutions now compete for - and to confront the debate that could define its next decade: the race to make Bitcoin quantum-secure.

People in this episode

Host: Bitcoin Suisse

Guest: Adam Back

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• quantum security
• cypherpunk
• reserve asset
• proof-of-work

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• Adam Back
• quantum security
• cypherpunk
• proof-of-work
• Blockstream
• reserve asset

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blockstream, Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company

Books & works: Bitcoin whitepaper, Hashcash

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