Emin Gun Sirer on Bitcoin Folklore, Twitter, POW and AVA

Humans of Bitcoin by Matt Aaron

Sep 3, 201951:56Society & Culture

Emin Gun Sirer is arguably the most prominent professor in the Bitcoin ecosphere. Teaching computer science at Cornell since 2001, Emin was interested in cryptocurrency before bitcoin. In 2003, with Karma, he invented pr...

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