Vlad Zamfir

Bio

• Often writes interesting pieces about the blockchain space in general and describes himself as an "absurdist troll".

Occupations

• Left to work at Casper Labs on Casper instead of doing it at Ethereum itself. Update (22-10-2020):

"Ethereum Foundation developer Vlad Zamfir used to advise the company. But he’d left the project by March 2020, when CasperLabs said it was pivoting away from Ethereum." Update (21-3-2021): "Vlad Zamfir sues over rights to the Casper name."

• OmiseGo, advisor
• Synereo works together with Zamfir and Vitalik.
• Works together with RChain.
• Ethereum & Casper developer. Zamfir was leading a popular version of Casper (CBC) at Ethereum, helping the network to rely on stake rather than computing power to achieve consensus, as well as addressing scalability issues.
• Cryptocurrency Research Group, team member back in 2014

Investments

• Took part in the 2016 private raise for ECC (Zcash).