David Chaum is a mercurial gentleman. He’s gone from pretty much inventing digital cash, the main thing he missed being Satoshi’s proof of work, to consulting on CBDCs, working with European bankers, and plotting to stop solar warming… by blanketing the sun with solar dust, possibly from the moon.
We managed to get hold of him when he was in a bit of a cantankerous mood in Singapore, but the interview was memorable nonetheless. Personally, Chaum reminds me of a generation of idealistic western boomers that somehow morphed into the establishment. Listening to him sort of feels like watching the Star Wars remakes.
He’s gone from pretty much inventing digital cash, the main thing he missed being Satoshi’s proof of work, to consulting on CBDCs, working with European bankers, and plotting to stop solar warming
But hey, what do i know. After all, few on the UAE Tech Podcast have ever enjoyed such a tech pedigree. This is from Chaum’s wikipedia page:
"David Lee Chaum (born 1955) is an American computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor. He is known as a pioneer in cryptography and privacy-preserving technologies, and widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash. His 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups" is the first known proposal for a blockchain protocol.[1] Complete with the code to implement the protocol, Chaum's dissertation proposed all but one element of the blockchain later detailed in the Bitcoin whitepaper. He has been referred to as "the father of online anonymity",[2] and "the godfather of cryptocurrency."
So without further ado, the UAE Tech Podcast is pleased and at times befuddled, to announce David Chaum.
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