Adam Back

Publications
Influence

Hashcash - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure

Adam Back
Computer Science
2002

This paper captures in one place the various applications, improvements suggested and related subsequent publications, and describes initial experience from experiments using hashcash. Expand

Enabling Blockchain Innovations with Pegged Sidechains

Adam Back, Matt Corallo, +6 authors Pieter Wuille
Engineering
2014

Since the introduction of Bitcoin[Nak09] in 2009, and the multiple computer science and electronic cash innovations it brought, there has been great interest in the potential of decentralised… Expand

Traffic Analysis Attacks and Trade-Offs in Anonymity Providing Systems

Adam Back, U. Möller, Anton Stiglic
Computer Science
Information Hiding
25 April 2001

We discuss problems and trade-offs with systems providing anonymity for web browsing (or more generally any communication system that requires low latency interaction). Expand

Cerebellopontine angle meningiomas: postoperative outcomes in a modern cohort.

V. Agarwal, R. Babu, +5 authors C. Adamson
Medicine
Neurosurgical focus
1 December 2013

OBJECT Tumors of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) have always proven difficult for neurosurgeons to optimally manage. Studies investigating the natural history and treatment of vestibular schwannomas… Expand

Hashcash - Amortizable Publicly Auditable Cost-Functions

Adam Back
Computer Science
2002

We present a distributed efficiently amortizable CPU cost-function with no trap–door. Expand

Confidential Assets

A. Poelstra, Adam Back, Mark Friedenbach, Gregory Maxwell, Pieter Wuille
Computer Science
Financial Cryptography Workshops
2018

We propose a scheme, confidential transactions, which blinds the amounts of all UTXOs, while preserving public verifiability that no transaction creates or destroys coins. Expand

Ammonia-induced brain swelling and neurotoxicity in an organotypic slice model

Adam Back, K. Y. Tupper, +4 authors J. Brorson
Medicine
Neurological research
1 December 2011

Abstract Objectives: Acute liver failure (ALF) produces cerebral dysfunction and edema, mediated in part by elevated ammonia concentrations, often leading to coma and death. The pathophysiology of… Expand

Note on fair coin toss via Bitcoin

Adam Back, I. Bentov
Computer Science
ArXiv
15 February 2014

We show that the Bitcoin network can allow remote parties to gamble with their bitcoins by tossing a fair or biased coin, with no need for a trusted party, and without the possibility of extortion by dishonest parties who try to abort. Expand

Time-stamp generation for optimistic parallel computing

Adam Back, S. Turner
Computer Science
Proceedings of Simulation Symposium
25 April 1995

Optimistic execution techniques are widely used in the field of parallel discrete event simulation. Expand

Using optimistic execution techniques as a parallelisation tool for general purpose computing

Adam Back, S. Turner
Computer Science
HPCN Europe
3 May 1995

We present the design and implementation of a compiler system which uses optimistic simulation techniques to execute sequential C ++ programs. Expand

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