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Voorhees was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1984, [10] and was raised in Colorado. [11] In 2003, Voorhees enrolled at the University of Puget Sound, where he became friends with a fellow student named Nicolas Cary, who he would introduce to Bitcoin; Cary later founded Blockchain.com.
This is a list of people in blockchain technology, people who do work in the area of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, in particular researchers, business people, and authors. Some people that are notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as programming.
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.
Satoshi Nakamoto message embedded in the coinbase of the first block. Nakamoto said that the work of writing bitcoin's code began in the second quarter of 2007. [9] On 18 August 2008, he or a colleague registered the domain name bitcoin.org, [10] and created a web site at that address.
[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]
Chaum was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles, California. [8] He gained a doctorate in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1982. [9] [10] Also that year, he founded the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), which currently organizes academic conferences in cryptography research.
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).