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Brock Jeffrey Pierce (born November 14, 1980) is an American entrepreneur known primarily for his work in the cryptocurrency industry. [2] [3] As a child actor, he starred in the Disney films The Mighty Ducks (1992), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), and First Kid (1996).
Nikil Viswanathan is an American billionaire entrepreneur.He is the cofounder and CEO of Alchemy, the blockchain company backed by Stanford University, Alphabet, Inc. (Google) Chair John L. Hennessy, Charles Schwab, Reid Hoffman, and other billionaire founders and executives.
Marc Lowell Andreessen (/ænˈdriːsən/ AN-dree-sen; born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer.He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
[8] [1] After parting ways with Armstrong, Reeves continued to work on Blockchain.info. [1] From 2013 to 2014, Blockchain's user base grew from 100,000 wallet users in early 2013 to 1.5 million in April 2014. [10] By 2014, Blockchain.com was the most popular bitcoin wallet and was led by Nicolas Cary as CEO. [11]
A blockchain has been described as a value-exchange protocol. [24] A blockchain can maintain title rights because, when properly set up to detail the exchange agreement, it provides a record that compels offer and acceptance. [citation needed] Logically, a blockchain can be seen as consisting of several layers: [25] infrastructure (hardware)
Haber and Stornetta are the most cited authors in Satoshi Nakamoto’s original Bitcoin white paper, of the eight citations, three reference their work. [ 8 ] Their 1991 paper "How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document” is where they first describe a system now known as a " blockchain ". [ 9 ]
Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) [3] is an American businessperson, who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2015 until 2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman of Block, Inc. (developer of the Square financial services platform).
Wakefield Scott Stornetta (born June 1959) is an American physicist and scientific researcher.His 1991 paper "How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document”, [1] co-authored with Stuart Haber, won the 1992 Discover Award for Computer Software and is considered to be one of the most important papers in the development of cryptocurrencies.