This week, our 6 Questions go to David Chaum, one of the earliest blockchain researchers and a world-renowned cryptographer and privacy advocate. He is the founder of Elixxir, Praxxis and the XX network, which encompass his decades of research and contributions in the field of cryptography and privacy.
David Chaum is the creator and founder of XX network, the first consumer-scale, quantum-ready online platform that enables value to be communicated and exchanged without revealing so-called metadata. David is a pioneer in cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies, and is widely recognized as the inventor of electronic cash. His work on cryptographic vault systems contains the first proposal for a blockchain protocol, containing all but one element detailed 26 years later in the Bitcoin white paper. Davids company, DigiCash, deployed a breakthrough cryptographic blind-signature protocol in 1995 to create the worlds first anonymous digital currency, eCash.
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