{"id":2475,"date":"2019-05-14T09:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T21:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?post_type=port&p=2475"},"modified":"2023-06-10T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T09:02:34","slug":"meeting-david-chaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/14\/meeting-david-chaum\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting David Chaum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the morning of the talk at Ethereal New York, as I was doing an AV check with my computer, this man with a white beard came over wanted to do an AV check as well. He saw I had a presentation clicker and asked if he could borrow it. I said sure, why not and it was at that moment when I glanced down at his lanyard that I saw his name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re David Chaum!\u201d I said. \u201cYep, the one and only\u201d he replied. I was a little shell shocked as the last time I glanced through the speakers list I didn\u2019t see him there. I knew about David because I mentioned him in my Tokenomics books with Thomas. He is a renowned American cryptographer who invented the concept of blind signatures and ecash back in the 80\u2019s amongst a whole bunch of other research, and started a company called DigiCash in the 90\u2019s which used his invention of ecash and was essentially one of the precursors to Bitcoin. He is currently the co-founder of a company called Elixxir.<\/p>\n\n\n

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