Peter Vessenes on ICOs, regulation and the growth of the blockchain – Bankless Times
Peter Vessenes on ICOs, regulation and the growth of the blockchain When people chronicle the early years of cryptocurrency and the blockchain, they will find Peter Vessenes played a key role. A graduate of Brown University with a degree in theoretical mathematics, he founded the first venture-backed Bitcoin company and the first company to deliver 65nm Bitcoin mining chips at scale. A co-founder of the Bitcoin Foundation, Mr. Vessenes holds a fundamental patent for deanonymizing Bitcoin transactions and was the first to suggest pooled Bitcoin mining and the first to publicize security risks ...