Daniel Larimer

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Bio

"Daniel Larimer was born in Colorado and spent his formative years in Florida and Virginia. He received a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2003. He is a visionary software engineer and serial entrepreneur who is focused in the areas of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, decentralized exchanges, economic systems and freedom.Dan Larimer is the co-founder of Steemit, Inc and its CTO until march 2017. He's also the CEO of Cryptonomex, Inc. which is a blockchain technology consulting company. He also founded Bitshares and Invictus Innovations. He originated the idea of the "decentralized autonomous company" or DAC. In June 2016 Dan Larimer in his Steemit biog told that over the past three years he have worked with the Bitshares community to implement the worlds first Decentralized Autonomous Organization based upon many of the same principles as Ethereum's The DAO. Money was raised, tokens were allocated, and token holders were given the ability to vote on how to spend community money and set blockchain parameters."

Computer programmer Dan Larimer used to be a cog in America's military-industrial complex, working on defense projects, drones and unmanned vehicles for companies like Raytheon and Torc Robotics. But in 2007, the Virginia Tech graduate says, he had an existential crisis.

"Philosophically, I wanted to move from working on weapons of destruction to creating systems that could help provide life, liberty and property for mankind," says Larimer, 35.

In 2013, Larimer started BitShares, a crypto-exchange managed by a community instead of a single authority. In 2016 he left to pursue a new idea for a blockchain-based social network, Steemit, where users are rewarded with tokens for posting and curating content. Over the past two months, Steemit's coin (called Steem) has surged, pushing its value to $1.4 billion.

Larimer has since joined forces with Brendan Blumer to start Block.one."

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