Somehow, Chaum is still optimistic, he told CoinDesk. He’s now an unabashed supporter of the blockchain industry, which can evade the pitfalls of proprietary technology and centralized corporations. He’s often still called the “Godfather of Cryptocurrency” (one of Satoshi Nakamoto’s few citations given in the Bitcoin whitepaper), and his cryptography research into blind signatures, group signatures, mix networks, secure digital voting and zero-knowledge proofs, and more, is still fertile ground for modern crypto developers.
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