# Blockstream [[Bitcoin]] infrastructure company founded in 2014 and led by cypherpunk [[Adam Back]] (inventor of Hashcash and a recurring "Satoshi suspect"). Blockstream builds Bitcoin layer-2 and sidechain technology (e.g., the Liquid Network) and has become a vehicle for the bitcoin-treasury wave, partnering with [[Cantor Fitzgerald]] on a SPAC-based bitcoin acquisition company. > Status: stub — expand with Back's cypherpunk lineage, the Liquid sidechain, the Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company SPAC, and the ideological "sound money" positioning. ## See Also - [[Adam Back]] - [[Bitcoin]] - [[Cryptocurrency Ecosystem]]