Andreas Antonopoulos
From wikipedia:
Andreas M. Antonopoulos is a Greek - California-based information security expert, tech-entrepreneur and author. He is a host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast and a teaching fellow for the master in science Digital Currencies at the University of Nicosia.
Antonopoulos obtained his degree in Computer Science and Data Communications and Distributed Systems from the University College London. He consulted business on open source and open networks as early as 1990. He has authored more than two hundred articles published in print and syndicated worldwide. As a partner at Nemertes Research, Antonopoulos researched computer security, stating that the greatest threat to computer security was not experienced hackers, but overly complex systems that resulted from rapid change in business.
Antonopoulos is a consultant on several bitcoin-related startups and permanent host of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin podcast. He served as head of the Bitcoin Foundation’s anti-poverty committee until 2014, resigning due to disagreements with its management. In a statement explaining the reasons for his resignation, he said “I can no longer have even the smallest association with the Bitcoin Foundation, because of the complete lack of transparency.”
In January 2014, Antonopoulos joined Blockchain.info as Chief Security Officer. In September 2014 he left the CSO role and became an advisor to the board.
Antonopoulos was an outspoken critic of the Mt. Gox trading platform as early as April 2013, calling it “a systemic risk to bitcoin, a death trap for traders and a business run by the clueless”. In February 2014, following the closing of Mt. Gox, Antonopoulos published a further analysis of the collapse and its effect on the greater bitcoin ecosystem.
Links
- Andreas Antonopoulos on Wikipedia
- @aantonop on Twitter
- Andreas M. Antonopoulos on GitHub
- 25-Feb-2014 Antonopoulos.com - Statement on Mt.Gox by Andreas Antonopoulos
- Dec 2014 O’Reilly Books - Mastering Bitcoin (free to read on GitHub) by Andreas Antonopoulos
- 09-Nov-2015 The Bitcoin Foundation on Youtube - Panel Discussion-DevCore Draper University 2015 with Matt Corallo, Gregory Maxwell and Gavin Andresen
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