Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn explained

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
Mother:Olene Harris
Father:Ron Wilcox
Brother:Joshua Wilcox
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Birth Name:Bryce Wilcox
Birth Date:13 May 1974
Birth Place:Phoenix, Arizona
Employer:Electric Coin Company

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (born Bryce Wilcox; 13 May 1974 in Phoenix, Arizona), is an American Colorado-based computer security specialist, self-proclaimed cypherpunk, and ex-CEO of the Electric Coin Company (ECC), a for-profit company leading the development of Zcash.[1]

Biography

He is known for the Tahoe Least-Authority File Store (or Tahoe-LAFS), a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem[2] [3] released under GPL and the TGPPL licenses. He is the creator of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence (TGPPL).[4]

Wilcox-O'Hearn is the designer of multiple network protocols that incorporate concepts such as self-contained economies and secure reputation systems.[5] He is a member of the development team of ZRTP[6] and the BLAKE2 cryptographic hash function.[7] [8]

Zooko's triangle is named after Wilcox-O'Hearn, who described the schema that relates three desirable properties of identifiers in 2001.[9]

Wilcox-O'Hearn was founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises in Boulder, Colorado[1] where he is now an advisor.[10]

Zooko was a developer of the MojoNation[11] P2P system and lead developer of the follow-on Mnet network,[12] and a developer at SimpleGeo.[13]

Wilcox-O'Hearn worked on the first cryptocurrency, DigiCash, with David Chaum in 1996.[14] He is a member of the founding team of the anonymous cryptocurrency Zcash, which launched in 2016. He currently serves as the CEO of the affiliated Electric Coin Company.[15] Wilcox later commissioned the Rand Corporation to study whether anonymous coins were disproportionately represented in criminal transactions; the study found they were not.

Additionally Wilcox-O'Hearn was one of the co-creators of Blake3.[16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Introducing the PRISM-Proof Storage Device. DJ Pangburn. 2013. Vice. motherboard. https://web.archive.org/web/20130828115527/http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/least-authoritys-zooko-wilcox-ohearn-talks-about-his-prism-proof-storage-device. 2013-08-28.
  2. Wilcox-O'Hearn, Zooko, ANNOUNCING allmydata.org "Tahoe", the Least-Authority Filesystem, v1.3, retrieved 20 April 2009
  3. Web site: Why Whack-a-Tard won't save music . Andrew . Orlowski . The Register . April 22, 2009 . June 3, 2021.
  4. An Open Source License Idea . Yee . Ka-Ping. 2008 . PyCon . https://us.pycon.org.
  5. Web site: Collaborative Filtering and Social Capital . 2008-11-21 . Peter . Ferne . World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
  6. Web site: About The Zfone™ Project. zfoneproject. Zfone. 2010. 2017-12-31.
  7. Web site: BLAKE2 website . BLAKE2 Team . November 19, 2012 . June 3, 2021.
  8. Book: http://eprint.iacr.org/2013/322.pdf. BLAKE2: simpler, smaller, fast as MD5. IACR. 2013. 10.1007/978-3-642-38980-1_8. Jean-Philippe Aumasson . Samuel Neves . Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn . Christian Winnerlein . Applied Cryptography and Network Security. 7954. 119–135. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 978-3-642-38979-5.
  9. Book: http://folk.uio.no/josang/papers/FJSB2009-NordSec.pdf. 2009. Security Usability of Petname Systems. 10.1007/978-3-642-04766-4_4. Identity and Privacy in the Internet Age. 5838. 44–59. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Ferdous. Md. Sadek. Jøsang. Audun. Singh. Kuldeep. Borgaonkar. Ravishankar. 978-3-642-04765-7. 10.1.1.617.1149.
  10. Web site: About Us . Least Authority Enterprises . 2017 . moved to Berlin in 2016.
  11. Web site: Get Your Music Mojo Working . Staff . . July 29, 2000 . June 3, 2021.
  12. Web site: Cutting edge P2P, crypto comes to your PC. 25 February 2002. The Register.
  13. Web site: Post-Funding, SimpleGeo Pounces on a Six Aparter, A Hacker, And Beta Keys. 14 December 2009. TechCrunch.
  14. Web site: Zooko . O'Hearn . Cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, etc.: revolutionary tech? . . December 29, 2017 . June 3, 2021 . 34C3 . video.
  15. Web site: del Castillo. Michael . Cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox Aims To Bring Anonymous Zcash To Law-Abiding Masses . May 6, 2020 . June 1, 2020 . Forbes . en.
  16. Web site: Blake3 github. .

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