Nick Szabo
From CryptoWiki
- Cypherpunk
- Profession: Computer Scientist, Legal Scholar and Cryptographer
- He is known for his research in digital contracts and digital currency and designed BitGold in 1998, a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency. Although bitgold was never implement it was crucial for the development of bitcoin ten years later. He is also credited with coining the term “smart contracts.” Some claim that Nick Szabo might be Satoshi himself, but he, however, denies it.
- Bloq, board of directors
- Mirror Labs formerly Vaurum (an institutional-grade exchange platform for bitcoin investors), works on smart contracts
