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Live from Miami: Adam Back on Bitcoin's History, Satoshi, Blockstream and More

Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell

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Computer Science - What Drew You to Computer Science?

i got one of the early computer a idixi one when i was about 12 or 13. When i came to university, decided i would do compute r science too and learn more in that area. Got exposed to that universitya a master student. Was running a remale, which is a bet of privacy technology to be able to send emales anonymously. And so there's this kind of interesting combination. Because remales are anonymous, the usual anti spam techniques don't work. Normally, people would just block the senders of a spam but because it's anonymous, you don't know who the centr is by design. That's where hash cash came from - many years later,

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