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Adam Back (1970–) — Inventor of Hashcash and the first person Satoshi Nakamoto contacted

British cryptographer and cypherpunk (born 1970) who invented Hashcash (1997). The first known person Satoshi contacted about Bitcoin (August 20, 2008). Co-founded Blockstream in 2014.